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Enclosure
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H.B.M. Office of Torks,
Shanghai, September 26th, 1922.
sir,
I am directed by my Board to place myself in communication with Your Excellency on the subject of the British Post Office Buildings at Shanghai and to request Your Excellency's views as to the manner of disposing of the buildings after they cease to be used for Post Office purposes on December 1st next.
The original Post Office building stands on ground which was leased by the Imperial Government for nine hundred and ninety nine years to the Hongkong Government at a peperoom rent by virtue of an Agreement dated 18th of March, 1875, between Mr. Robert Henry Boyce of Shanghai acting on behalf of H‚M. First Commissioner of Works and Publie Buildings and Sir Arthur Kennedy, E.C.M.G., Governor of Hongkong.
There is al no an extension which stands on ground belonging to HM, Government and rented by the Hong Kong Government at Taels 100.00 per mensen by Agreement dated 6th of December, 1905.
The lease was considered cancelled when the Shanghai Post Office was transferred from the Hongkong Administration to the Imperial Government on January 1st, 1911, from which date the rent ceased to be paid.
In 1917 the British Postmaster at Shanghai terminated his cocupancy of the flat on the upper floor and the premises were leased as offices, with the consent of the Hongkong Government, to Mesure. White-Cooper and Master
who continue to rent them on a monthly tenancy at Taels 150 per mensem, the rent being paid to the Hongkong Government through the British Postmester.
His Excellency
The Officer Administering the Government,
Hongkong.
The
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