§ CAPTAIN ELLICE (St. Andrews Burghs)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that notices intimating the amount of parochial assessment due, which have hitherto been delivered for a halfpenny, are not now eligible to be included under that class of packet that can be sent for a halfpenny; and whether, in view of the addition to the outlays of the rating authorities and incidentally of the ratepayers that this will entail, he will consider the advisability of revoking this order as far as it applies to the above notices.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Lord STANLEY,) Lancashire, WesthoughtonIt is true that, before January 1st, 1904, notices issued by local authorities were transmissible for a postage of one halfpenny. When, however, the regulations of the halfpenny post were revised it was found necessary to restrict the privilege of sending notices (other than those which conformed to the conditions applicable to circulars) at the halfpenny rate to officers of a Court of Justice. I am sorry that I do not see my way to alter the decision then arrived at.