CO129-436 - Acting Governor Claud Sever & Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1916 [11-12] — Page 659

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THE SECRE

D/Stamps 206

11/23/14

Gentlemen,

GENERAL POST OFFICE TO CROWN AGENTS.

General Post Office,

London,

15th March,1916

I am directed by the Postmaster General to inform

you that he wishes to make arrangements for the issue of

specially overprinted Hong Kong postage stamps for use by

the British Post Office Agencies in China,

A similar proposal was under consideration in 1911

and the Postmaster General was then informed that the

Secretary of State for the Colonies had authorised the

Crown Agents to supply to this office at cost price at ampa

identical with those printed for the Government of Hong

Kong, payment being made to the Crown Agents direct, and

not through the Colonial Government or Colonial Post Office

accounts. The proposal was not pursued at that time, but

the Post master General will be glad to learn that the

arrangements then contemplated will hold good now,

If that is so, the question of the number required

of stamps postcards and envelopes of the several denomin

nations will be considered, and a further communication

addressed to you in due course. The stamps would be over.

printed under proper safeguards in the Stamping Department

of the Board of Inland Revenue,

I am etc.

(Sgd.) W.G. Gates.

€ 18