§ MR. COBBI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will give such instructions as will prevent the enforcement of penalties against publicans and tradesmen who oblige their customers by selling them postage stamps after post offices are closed?
§ A LORD OF THE TREASURY (Sir HERBERT MAXWELL,) WigtonI do not think it necessary to give any instructions as to the enforcement of penalties against publicans and others who sell 753 postage stamps to their customers after post offices are closed.
§ MR. COBBIs the hon. Baronet aware that several publicans have been annoyed by the proceedings which officials have taken; and that, although shopkeepers are allowed to have licences for the sale of stamps on application, publicans are always refused?
§ SIR H. MAXWELLI will inquire further whether licences to sell stamps are refused to publicans, and I will communicate with the hon. Member.