§ MR. SAMUEL YOUNG (Cavan, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether duplicate Press telegrams to separate newspapers are charged at a reduced rate for the second telegram where payment is made in cash, but at the full rate when passes are handed in with the message; and whether, in the interests of the newspapers of the United Kingdom, he will have the reduced rate allowed on passes as well as in cash payments, and the total cost apportioned equally to the several addresses?
§ MR. HANBURYIt is the fact that, duplicate press telegrams to separate newspapers are charged at a reduced rate for the second telegram when payment is made in cash, but at the full rate when the passes of the separate newspapers, are handed in with the message. This practice was sanctioned by regulations framed by the Postmaster General in 1879 with the approval of the Treasury, and laid upon the Table of the House.