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REPORT OF THE ACTING SECRETARY. 



Statement of packages received from transmission through the International Exchange 

 Serrice during the fiscal ijear ending June SO, 1906 — Continued. 



Country. 



Netherlands 



Newfoundland 



New South Wales 



New Zealand 



Nicaragua 



Norfolk Island.'! 



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 



For— 



2,337 



134 



2,023 



1,043 



219 



11 



1,427 



92 



72 



152 



42 



1,049 



267 



14 



1,028 



952 



10 



33 



321 



4,351 



1 



21 



16 



2 



13 



14 



13 



2 



From- 



906 

 



641 

 1 

 

 



882 

 

 

 

 



196 



601 

 



155 

 18 

 

 

 16 

 1,620 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Packages. 



For- 



Samoa 



San Salvador 



Santo Domingo 



Sarawak 



Servia 



Siam 



Sierra Leone 



Society Islands 



South Australia . . . 



Spain 



Straits Settlements 



Sumatra 



Sweden 



Switzerland 



Tahiti 



Tasmania 



Transvaal 



Trinidad 



Tunis 



Turkey 



Turks Islands 



United States 



Uruguay 



Venezuela 



Victoria 



Western Australia. 

 Zanzibar 



26 

 196 



25 

 2 



78 

 194 



15 



14 

 993 

 ,764 

 150 



12 

 ,164 

 861 



1 

 674 

 708 



73 



30 

 803 



17 

 802 

 310 

 727 

 934 

 747 



13 



















86 















218 



174 











39 



1,537 







2 



1 







5 











113, 419 



62 



28 



102 



113 







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

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

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

 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 otficial 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 1889 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 freciuent 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 



