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EEPORT OF THE ACTING SECRETARY. 



Statement nf packages received from transmisftion through the Inlrrnatinnal E.ixJtange 

 Service (hiring the fiscal year ending Jane ."0, IDOH — Continued. 



Country. 



1906. 



Packages. 



For- 



Netliei'lands 



Newfoundland 



New South Wales 



New Zealand 



Nicaragua 



Norfolk Islands 



Norway 



Orange River Colony . . 



Panama 



Paraguay 



Persia 



Peru 



Philippine Islands 



Porto Rico 



Portugal 



Queensland 



Reunion 



Rhodesia 



Roumania 



Russia 



St. Croix 



St. Helena 



St. Kitts 



St. Lucia 



St. Martin 



St. Pierre and Miquelon 



St. Thomas 



St. Vincent 



,337 



134 



,023 



,043 



219 



11 



,427 



92 



72 



152 



42 



, 049 



267 



14 



,028 



952 



10 



33 



321 



,351 



1 



21 



16 



2 



13 

 14 

 13 

 2 



From- 



906 

 



641 

 1 

 

 



882 

 

 

 

 



196 



601 

 



155 



18 











16 



1,620 



































Country. 



1906. 



Packages. 



For- 



Samoa 



San Salvador 



Santo Domingo... 



Sarawak 



Servia 



Siam 



Sierra Leone 



Society Islands . . . 

 South Australia .. 



Spain 



Straits Settlement' 



Sumatra 



Sweden 



Switzerland 



Tahiti 



Tasmania 



Transvaal 



Trinidad 



Tunis 



Turkey 



Turks Islands 



United States 



Uruguay 



Venezuela 



Victoria 



Western Australia 

 Zanzibar 



26 



195 



25 



2 



78 



194 



15 



14 



993 



,764 



l.W 



12 



,164 



,861 



1 



674 



708 



73 



30 



803 



17 



,802 



,310 



727 



,934 



747 



13 



Prom- 





 

 

 



86 

 

 

 



218 



174 











39 



, 537 







2 



1 





 5 

 







,419 



52 



28 



102 



113 







Consignments are now sent directly to five different establisluuents in Argen- 

 tina. As this procedure is contrary to the practice of the International Ex- 

 changes in the case of other countries, and as the freight charges connected 

 with the forwarding of exchanges to so many depositories in one country is 

 more than the funds at the disposal of the Institution for carrying on the 

 service will bear, the Department of State has been asked to ascertain through 

 the proper authorities of the Argentine Government whether the National 

 Museum at Buenos Ayres — the one to whom the largest number of sendings 

 are made— can not be designated to act in the future, as it did some years 

 ago, as the official exchange intermediary between Argentina and the United 

 States. It is not expected that there will be any difficulty in effecting this 

 improvement in the service, as Argentina in 1SS9 adhered to the Brussels con- 

 vention, which provides, among other things, for the establishment in each of 

 the contracting States of a bureau charged with the duty of conducting the 

 exchanges. Should this change be consummated there will be a material saving 

 to the International Exchanges in the cost of transmissions to Argentina, and at 

 the same time more frequent shipments will be rendered possible. 



It is gratifying to state that the long-pending exchange negotiations with 

 China have, through the efforts of the Hon. W. W. Rockhill, American minister 



