§ MR. L. HASLAMTo ask the Postmaster-General, in consideration of the fact that British postal orders are payable in many parts of the British Empire, while in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada such is not the case, whether he will consider the advisability of placing the matter before the Colonial Conference for consideration.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) British postal orders are payable in New Zealand, and Australia and Canada are now the only important parts of the British Empire which have not accepted the Imperial Postal Order scheme. I am in communication with the Postmasters-General of the Dominion and the Commonwealth, with a view to overcoming, if possible, the difficulties which have hitherto prevented the acceptance of the scheme in those parts of the Empire; but it is feared that there will be no time for the discussion of the question at the Colonial Conference.