POSTAL NOTES.
Have the Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand given consideration to the anomalies of the postal note system of the Dominion? If they have not, they certainly should do so. A more iniquitous tax than that imposed by the Postal Department in its charge for postal notes could hardly be conceived. These notes are invariably given in ( exchange for cash, and possess no greater value in themselves than the ordinary Bank note. Indeed, the cost' of printing them is .much Jess. Why should one-have to pay a higher price for a postal note valued at £1 than he has for a note valued at five shillings ? Why, :•' indeed, should heHave, to pay more than the face value for any note, seeing that the Government gets the use of the cash, and all the advantage of notes which may be lost or destroyed ? The postal note is a feeder to the stamp and. mail service, and should be treated as such. The Government has no right to make money out of it, as it has been doing in the past. The tax is a class one,, because it places the country settler at a disadvantage compared with the man in the'town.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 9 January 1911, Page 4
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202POSTAL NOTES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 9 January 1911, Page 4
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