§ MR. CLANCYI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether a person or firm in Dublin or elsewhere in Ireland desiring to have stamps embossed by the Inland Revenue authorities on envelopes, wrappers, and other papers is obliged to get this operation performed in London, with the result that such persons or firms have to pay carriage to and from Ireland on the material to be embossed, or to buy the material in London and so deprive Irish manufacturers and workmen of work which they would otherwise be paid for doing; and, if so, whether an arrangement could be made by which the stamping could be done in Dublin.
§ MR. RUNCIMANThere are no facilities for stamping envelopes, wrappers, etc., at the Dublin and Edinburgh Stamp Offices, or elsewhere than at Somerset House; and under existing arrangements all material which it is desired to have embossed with postage stamps has to be sent, whether from Ireland or elsewhere, to and from London, and at the expense of the public for carriage. Without in any way pledging myself to any change, I will cause inquiry to be made into the general question of embossing postage duties.
§ MR. CLANCYWould it not be possible to arrange to have the stamping done both in Dublin and Edinburgh?
§ MR. RUNCIMANThat is one of the points we are considering.