HC Deb 22 February 1898 vol 53 cc1344-5
MR. W. JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, as Canada has adopted a new issue of postage stamps with a more modern likeness of Her Majesty than that in use on British stamps, he will consider the advisability of issuing a set of stamps bearing an effigy similar to that on recent British coinage?

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY,) Preston

There is no intention, I am informed, of issuing a new set of postage stamps bearing an effigy similar to that on recent British coinage.