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No. 38. The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the General Manager, Union Steam Ship Company, Dunedin. Sir,— General Post Office, Wellington, 13th May, 1907. 1 have the honour to confirm my telegram of the 10th instant, and to acknowledge the receipt of your reply of the same date. I have to thank you for your offer to inform me regularly of the arrival of the CanadianAustralian mail-steamers at Vancouver, and shall be obliged if you will arrange to inform this office accordingly by " collect "' telegram. I have, &c, D. Robertson, Secretary. " The General Manager, Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (Limited), Dunedin. [Van. Mis. 07/1 H.J

No. 39. The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Colonial Postmaster, Suva. Sir,-— General Post Office, Wellington, 13th May, 1907. In continuation of my letter of the 10th instant [not printed] about the proposal to tranship mails for this colony arriving at Suva by the Vancouver steamers. I shall be glad if you will add to the telegram to lie s<;nt to the Auckland Post-office when the mails are transhipped the word " direct " or " Sydney," which will be understood to mean the route by which the mails are despatched. I have, &c, The Colonial Postmaster, Suva, Fiji. D. Robertson, Secretary. [Van. Mb., 07/19.]

No. 40. The Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne, to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington . Commonwealth of Australia, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne, Sir,— 25th May, 1907. With reference to your letter of the 9th instant, relative to the question of the rates to be paid to this Department by your Administration in connection with New Zealand mails conveyed by steamers employed in the Vancouver service, 1 have the honour to inform you approval has been given for the acceptance, as from the Ist instant, of Postal Union rates for the sea transit ot such mails by the vessels mentioned, and the Deputy Postmasters-General of the several States of the Commonwealth are being instructed accordingly. 1 have, (fee, The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. Robert T. Scott, Secretary. [P.O. 07/1063.1

No. 41 The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne. Sir, — General Post Office, Wellington, 7th June, 1907. 1 have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of, and to thank you for, your letter of the 25th ultimo, notifying that, in place of the special rates hitherto paid, your Department would claim, as from the Ist May, Postal Union rates only for the conveyance of New Zealand mail-matter by the steamers of the Vancouver service. I have, &c, D. Robertson, Secretary. The Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne. [P.O. 07/1083.]

No. 42. The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Deputy Postmaster-General, Sydney. (Telegram.) Wellington, 21st June, 1907. May Vancouver time-table be extended present intervals from ninth July? [Van. MiH., 07/34.1

No. 43. The Deputy Postmaster-General, Sydney, to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington (Telegram.) Sydney, 24th June, 1907. Yours Vancouver time-table. Yes. [Van. Mis. 07/36.]