such other information as may bear on the matter.

2. With each report on an application for a new Post Office should be
sent a sketch or tracing (from the map of your Division) shewing as
nearly as can be ascertained the position of the proposed office and
mail route, and the offices and mail routes already in operation in
its neighborhood.

VII.

MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.

1. The principal object of all mail arrangements is to ensure the
transit of the letters and papers to destination with the utmost
possible despatch.

2. The main routes throughout the Provinces should connect with each
other as closely as it is possible.

3. The branch routes should be so arranged as to form as close a
connection as possible with the main lines.

4. Through bags should be exchanged by all offices between which pass
a large number of letters and papers, including Travelling Post
Offices on different routes.

5. When, as a general rule, an office has a large number of registered
letters for another office with which it does not exchange a direct
mail, the registered letters may be enclosed in a sealed registered
packet, addressed to the office for which the letters are intended.
The address of the packet, however, should, in all cases, be entered
in the Letter Bill with which it is despatched.

When a packet is sent as above, it should be accompanied by a Letter
Bill containing at foot an acknowledgment for registered letters. This
acknowledgment should be filled up by the receiving office and
returned to the despatching office by the first post.

6. Where large numbers of registered letters pass between two offices,
it is desirable that bags secured with the lead seal should be used.

7. An Inspector should always be on the watch to ascertain what
improvements can be made in the postal arrangements in his Division.
It should be his aim to anticipate the wants of the general public,
and to combine, as far as practicable, efficiency of service with
economy of expenditure.

VIII.

MAIL SERVICE.

1. It is very essential that a strict supervision should be maintained
over the performance of the mail service; that all delays and
irregularities should be promptly checked, and, when necessary, fines
imposed and enforced.

2. On all the important routes there should be suitable Time Bills, in
which should be entered the hours of arrival and departure at each
office, the names of the couriers, and the No. of the