CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911 — Page 400

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GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON,

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21 November 1911.

I am directed by the Postmaster General to advert to the Colonial Office letters of 22nd December last, No.37865/10, and the 2nd instant, No. 26795, relative to a request made by the German Post Office that the rates charged for the transmission of correspondence between Hong Kong an the Goman Postal Aronev at Canton may be reduced to the rates charged between Hong Kong and the British, French and Chinese Post Offices at Canton. As the Secretary of Stato is aware arrangements are at present in progress for the transfer of the control of the British Postal Agencies in China from the Colony of Hong Kong to the Imperial Post Office; and apart from any intrinsic objections to the request made by the Gorman Post Office it is not convenient that any alterations in the pictage rates should be made pending the completion of those arrangements.

But apart from this. the objections raised to the Gorman request by the Government of Hong Kong appear to tho Postmaster General to be well founded; and he would suggest that the Secretary of State should point cut to the Foreign Office that the existing postal concessions have been made

(a) to the Chinese Post Office because it is the only

Post Office which conducts a service and accepts letters for delivery outside the limits of the Tronty Ports; and

(b) to the French Post Office (which is in the French Under Secretary of Stato,

Settlement

COLONIAL OFFICE.