§ MR. MILDMAY (Devon, Totnes)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether the Postmaster General will consider the advisability of giving orders that the 1½d. patent medicine stamp should be issued perforated and gummed instead of as at present?
§ MR. HANBURYThis question has more than once been considered by the 1218 Board of Inland Revenue, but they find that there is great objection to stamps of a long narrow shape such as the medicine stamp being perforated, because they cannot be separated, except slowly and with great care, without being torn. So far as the Board are aware, those who use these stamps on any large scale prefer to cut and gum them for themselves, and in these circumstances the Board do not see their way to adopt the honourable Member's suggestion.