§ MR. WARNERI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, if the Post Office can do anything to give monthly trade papers the same advantages as weekly papers?
§ MR. HANBURYThe Post Office Act, 1870, restricts the newspaper privilege to periodicals published at intervals of not more than seven days. The question of extending the newspaper post to monthly publications has been very carefully considered by a Departmental Committee, and I cannot do better than refer 1272 the honourable Member to the report of that Committee, which was presented to the House in January, 1897, and which explains the chief reasons why the Postmaster-General is unable to propose any-such extension of the preferential rate of postage.