§ MR. HENNIKER HEATONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, when the proposed conference to discuss Imperial postal rates will be held; and whether he has read the cable message from Australia to the effect that the Australasian Prime Ministers have decided not to introduce 2d. postage to England?
§ MR. HANBURYIt is proposed that the conference on postal rates within the British Empire shall be held next June. The Postmaster General is aware that, according to a telegram which appeared in the Times newspaper on the 14th of March, the Australian Prime Ministers have decided that they "could not advise a reduction of postage rates to Great Britain," which is not quite the same thing as my hon. Friend's statement; but he has received no such message from Australia himself.