POSTAL CONFERENCE.
(UY KLECTIIIC TELEGRAPH.—COI'YIUOHT.) Sydney, March 7. At the Postal Conference, reports by the heads of departments on postal and telegraph regulations were curried after amendment. Objections were euteivd by Mr Gray, secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, New Zealand, against the abolition of collect telegrams, charging for addresses, and limitation of Press messages during the day to five hundred words. The motion of the Hon. Mr Ward (Nw Zealand), " That in the opinion of the Conference, seeing the advantages to be. derived by America from the mail service to Australia, the American Government be urged to substantially subsidise any mail line between San Francisco, New Zealand and Australia,'' was carried. The Adelaide delegates suggested a reciprocal arrangement between Australia and New Zealand over (he San Francisco and Suez mails. If New Zealand would reduce the present rates to 12s per lb for letters, Is for books, and (id for newspapers by the San Francisco route, be allowed • to send by Suez at tile same rate. The motion brought forward yesterday by Mr Duffy for au intercolonial penny post was withdrawn.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2910, 10 March 1891, Page 2
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183POSTAL CONFERENCE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2910, 10 March 1891, Page 2
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