§ MR. HENNIKER HEATON (Canterbury)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether the Treasury possesses power, without additional legislation, to issue a warrant or order authorising the Post Office to do all or any of the following things: to sell single postcards to the public at the face or stamp value; to transmit privately provided postcards, of the official size, each bearing an adhesive halfpenny stamp; to transmit circulars and similar documents, in unclosed envelopes, at the book post rate?
§ *SIR HERBERT MAXWELL (for the POSTMASTER GENERAL)I think that the Treasury possesses sufficient power to authorise the Postmaster General to do all the things referred to by the hon. Member; and in the event of the Post Office Acts Amendment Bill becoming law, the new warrant which would follow 1725 the Act will afford opportunities for dealing with these and other questions.