MR. Mc KENNA (Monmouthshire, N.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he will take into his favourable consideration the suggestion that the practice of issuing small books containing twenty-four penny postage stamps, at the price of 2s. 0½d., should be extended, and books containing eighteen penny and twelve halfpenny stamps should be issued at the same price.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) In view of the comparatively small sale of books 1387 of stamps I hardly think it is expedient to have two different books. A book containing both penny and halfpenny stamps would perhaps be more useful than the book of penny stamps now on sale, and I am considering the question of substituting books containing both penny and halfpenny stamps when the stock in hand of the present book is exhausted. This stock is, however, sufficient at the present rate of sale to last for some considerable time.