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blog to the Chinese service at a given date about the end of

the year,

unless you have some other proposal to make,

The Postmaster General will be much obliged if you

will be so good as to furnish him with a list of the staff

at each of the Agencies who wish to be transferred to the

Chinese service, with particulars of their service, their

soules of pay and so on. The Chinese Directorate General

of Posts will probably wish to be furnished with such a list

before arranging for the transfer to be carried out locally.

If you are of opinion that some small gratuity,

proportionate perhaps to their years of service, should be

paid to the Chinese staff on transfer, the Fostmaster General

will be pleased to recommend any proposal to that effect to

the favourable consideration of the Treasury,

If Messrs. Harborne and Lydon decide to revert to the

Home Service, they may be assured that suitable provision

will be made for them; and an appropriate advance may be

made, when the time comes, for travelling expenses,

The Office of Works is being consulted as regards the

building at Shanghai, Where, at other Agencies, buildings

are rented either directly or under an allowance to the

Agents, it seems right that some warning should be given that

they will probably not be required after the end of the year,

It is left to your discretion to give formal notice for the

31st, of December in any case in which the conditions of

tenancy make this step desirable,

The fittings at other offices besides Shanghai should

as far as possible be disposed of legally, To avoid useless

expenditure on sarriage, stores on hand should also be disposed

of locally so far as is advantageous, kny not suitable for

1008) disposal, which are returned to leng Kong and which

would/