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OCEANIC MAIL CONTRACT. (UHIIED Mt«S3 ASSOCIATION.—COPIhIGBT.) (AUSTRALIAN - <IBW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, 3rd July. No renewal has yet been made of the Oceanic Steamship Company's mailcarrying contract, which lapsed on Saturday. It is understood the ■ company declared that it would suspend sailings immediately unless the Government paid double the amount now stipulated. The company asks for Approximately 360,000 dollars a year. The Post Office Department declines to meet the increase, since it feels it will prob- , ably succeed in gettinpr a foreign line to carry the mail for 100,000 dollars per annum, but it has asked the company to continue handling the mails for a period of several months longer at the existing rates, so as to allow an opportunity to place the question before Congress, with a request for an appropriation. The Post Office Department is without funds to meet the increase. The Shipping Board and the Navy Department fftvomgranting the increase. 'No word has yob boon received from the eampaaiy iwaeei'S>
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 4, 5 July 1922, Page 5
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165PRICE DOUBLED Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 4, 5 July 1922, Page 5
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