§ MR. HENNIKER HEATONI beg to ask the representative of the Postmaster General, whether he is aware that there is a general demand for an international, or at least, for an Imperial postage stamp; whether, in the absence of this stamp, he will set apart a room in the new General Post Office, and also a room in each of the more important post offices of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast, &c., where the postage stamps of the Colonies of the Empire may be purchased, in order to give facilites to the public to send stamped letters for replies; and, whether he is aware that British postage stamps are sold in certain Australian post offices.
§ MR. HANBURYThe Postmaster-General is not aware that there is any general demand either for an international stamp or for an Imperial stamp, though there is a certain limited demand for such a stamp as the means of prepaying the postage on replies to letters sent abroad. He does not feel that he would be justified in making arrangements for the sale of colonial stamps, for which he also believes that there is no effective demand here, especially as such stamps would probably be used for remitting small sums of money to the colonies, and there are strong objections to the remittance of money by such means. The Postmaster General is aware that English stamps are sold at certain Australian post-offices.