PENNY POSTAGE
THE LOSS TO BRITAIN.
A MOTION RE-AFFIRMED.
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)
LONDON, June 16
Speaking at the Imperial Conference on the proposal of Sir Joseph Ward in regard to universal penny postage, the Hon. Herbert Samuel, Postmaster-General, showed that the average cost of handling each letter and reply to the different parts of the Empire was one penny and one-sixth. It would take fourteen years to recoup the loss incurred in exrtending the penny post to the United States.
Sir Joseph Ward thereupon substituted his 1907 resolution, which was re-affirmed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10266, 19 June 1911, Page 5
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93PENNY POSTAGE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10266, 19 June 1911, Page 5
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