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dictated by a desire to notist Pritish rather than Hong
Kong Interoats, and it appears to be generally admitted
that the reduction of postage was successful in providing
a satisfactory stimulus to British Trade.
It is also to be pointed out that at the time when the | change was made a lower rato was already in force from the
Prench Aganaies to Frame than from the Bitlish Agencies
to the "hitol Kinelos,and that the Acting Governor of Hong
Kong felt himself constrained to take immediate notion by
the projected opening of a Pronah Agonay at Anoy under
conditiona which would hoe doprivol the British Agency of
ouston evon for letters destined for the Thited Kingdom.
The Trench were colling 12 stamps of the face value of
6 centimos for a dollar; and the French rate was therefore
lower than the British in the proportion of 12 to 10.
Voreover in 190° the ultimte effoot of the opening of the
Siberian route and of the divorsion of Jorrespondence to
this costly servico wan not foreseen. The route was not
opened £411 November 1903, and its use ceased, arter a few months, until March 1007. The ingressa of the Postal micr
mit of weight from 16 to 20 gramos has also been
detrimental to revenue.
This change, which was wuthorinet
by the Rome Convention in 1900 and carried out in 1908, was of course not foreseen in 100°.
A. From the foregoing it would appear that there is no reason to believe that Hong Kong has on the whole roaned any considerable mrofit in the past from the postal agencies in China; that they are a source of considerable loon to her at the present time which is understood to be
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