§ MR. LODER (Brighton)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, seeing that new postage stamps will now have to be issued, the Postmaster General Can see his way to perforating or otherwise marking in a distinctive manner penny stamps which may be used in filling up the shilling Savings Bank forms, so that the fraudulent use of the ordinary penny stamp may as far as possible be avoided.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINThe Postmaster General has no evidence of any extensive use of Savings Bank stamp deposit forms for the disposal of stolen postage stamps; and to provide that none but special stamps should be used on such forms would detract from the simplicity and consequent usefulness of the arrangement. No perforated stamp is accepted as a part of a deposit; and any firm can thus remove temptation to dishonesty of the kind indicated by having its ordinary penny stamps perforated.