THE POSTAL CONFERENCE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association), Wellington, Monday, The Conference begun at ten o'clock, but the proceedings were purely formal. The Hon. J. G. Ward, who presided, welcomed the delegates in a brief speech, and after some papers had bei'n laid on the talile for printing, the Conference adjourned till to morrow, Among the papei'3 was a reply of the United Stales Government to the request ol the Me Conference to give ut subsidy to tho'Fiiseo servios and decrease the cost of transit of the mails from 'Fiisco to New York. The reply siated that the service already absorbed the maximum amount allowed by statute, viz., fify-five thousand dollars pnd the rata charged for the closed mails was less than the actual cost. The change at present waß impractical with re»ard to the parcel post of America. The N.B.W. Government replied that it did not deem it advisablo to establish a service at present for reasons given. Mr Leonard Stowe,clerk to IheLcgislative Council has been appointed Secretary to the Conference,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 March 1894, Page 3
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170THE POSTAL CONFERENCE. Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 March 1894, Page 3
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