CO129-407 - Public Offices & Others - 1913 — Page 275

~Address reply to-"Tha Secretary, General Post Ofeu,"

quoting Registered No. 244291.

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GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON.

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March 1913.

C.O.

Sir,

7982

8 MAR 2

With reference to your letter of the 4th of November last.

34362/1912, transmitting a copy of a despatch from the

No!

Governor of Hong Kong on the subject of the contribution of that Colony towards the subsidy payable in respect of the Mail

Service performed by the Peninsular and Oriental Steau

Navigation Company, I am directed by the Postmaster General to transmit to you, for the information of the Secretary of

State for the Colonies, the accompanying copy of a letter which has been sent from this Office to the Treasury on the

28th ultimo.

H

As will be seen from this communication, the Postmaster

General has made arrangements with the Company for the extension of the existing Contract for one year, and he

proposes in due course to put forward suggestions for the

rearrangement of the incidence of the subsidy to come into

operation after the 31st of January 1915, the earliest date on

which the present Contract could have been determined,

KI

I a,

Sir,

der Secretary of State,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

Your obedient Servant,

Beding