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The Meeting then resolves itself into Committee, and an open 

 Meeting being resumed, the following sub-Committee is appointed to 

 report on the various proposals before the Association, viz. Messrs. 

 Duncan, Maude, Skinner, Cumming, Darby Prior and Mansergh. 



12. POST OFFICES HOURS. 



Mr. A. Dupuis Brown proposes that the Postal Authorities arrange 

 for all Money Order offices to be kept open on one weekday, say 

 Wednesday, until 6 p. m., and on Sundays for two hours in the morn- 

 ing. At present all M. O. offices closed so early, that if a cooly 

 wished to remit money, it entailed on his part loss of a day's wages. 



Mr. F. J. Dupuis seconds the proposal. 



Mr. Harvey does not see why each estate should not undertake 

 to do all this M. O. business for their coolies. He had done this for 

 years with the best results. There was no loss of time, remittances 

 were made correctly and expeditiously and the coolie was saved from 

 employing letter writer. 



Mr. Cumming thinks that there should be no compulsion and 

 that if the cooly preferred to transact his own business at the post 

 office, he be given every facility for doing so. 



Mr. A. Dupuis Brown's motion is then put to the Meeting and 

 carried unanimously. 



It having been decided to hold the next Meeting on February, 12 

 the Meeting terminates at I p. m. 



(Sgd.) H. C. E. Zacharias, 



Secretary. 



BROWN'S SPECIFIC 



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OIARRHOJBA. 



To be had at the Singapore Dispensary and of Miss Brown, 

 Grassdale, River Valley Road, Singapore : : : : 



