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It is intended to avoid, if possible, the expense of carrying mail agents on the steamers in the renewed service, and this proposal will be feasible without loss of time in distributing the mails on arrival in New Zealand if New York will make up separate mails for Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington, as is done by San Francisco and Seattle. The Postmaster-General accordingly sent you the following cable message on the sth instant: " Obliged if New York would make same subdivision New Zealand mails as at present done by San Francisco and Seattle." I, therefore, enclose herewith four copies of a circulation list for the guidance of the New York, San Francisco, and Seattle Post Offices in making up mails for Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington. This is the list which is in use by the British Post Office, and the Postmaster-General trusts that his request will have received your favourable consideration before this letter reaches your hands. Any correspondence for New Zealand addressed to places not mentioned in the list should be sent forward on Wellington. I have, &c, The Hon. the Postmaster-General, Washington. ]). Robebtson, Secretary. [Wn.-s.p. 10/iie.] Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparatirn, not given; printing (1,630 copies). 4'll 5s

Authority : John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—l9lo.

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