POSTAL PROBLEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 5

POSTAL PROBLEMS

SUGGESTION BY SIR HLNNIKER BEATON. By HV.csrapli-l'rcas AesociaMiin-ConyrSKht •"Finiqi" Srdifis? .''Hiiii' 1 ' London, .Time 19. ■Sir Hennikcr Ronton has written to 5I:r« Hoblioirso. m'tfrnj; the appointment of aii. Imperial Postmaster-General entirely independent of tlio British Post.! Jimstcr-Gciura!, to control past a I and teic.graphic livtsijiess aifectiiifi the. Em- ; piro as a whole, the r.ew .official to hn a _ member of. t-iio Hoiiso of Commons iivitlx a coat iit the Cabinet. Sir Ilen-nik.-r also urges tiro convening .of an 1 li'ii'srnatioJial. Conference to establish a uniform cable rate 0? a pean.v ft won}: throughout the Empire and the I'niled States. llio' "Tiiiies..'* in. a tcadiiig arlfefe oii Sir nonniker flea-ton's proposals, says:. "AY a cannot think tlio appointment itf: an Imperial ?os lir. as; e r-S en era! passible _ at present .. Init- hopo to see, tho no distant (lav when, tlio organic union of Empire :, iviji advance a flirt her st&p toward its realisation*" . ■fi.lr, Hobhousr* (Postm'as.teps'ort6M.y.<: replying to a , deputation, from ilie. British Empire said tlio recent,. nmaieamafism of 'jsliip'pihg interests ~111 the East liad removed the only offcctiv«> fb'njpetition iii the carriage of lithihs,' and would undoubtedly load to :n- : Greased charges. ;