§ MR. J. M. ROBERTSONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether his attention has been called to the fact that the minimum rate of postage on letters from Egypt to England is still 1¼d., while the minimum rate from England to Egypt is 1d.; and whether, seeing that a stamp of the value of 1d. is already is use in Egypt for international postcards, and in view of the great and progressive increase in the postal revenue of Egypt, he will advise the Egyptian Government to establish reciprocity of postal rates between Egypt and England.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYThe principal reason against the establishment of reciprocity of postal rates between England and Egypt is a financial one. I shall have pleasure in furnishing the hon. Member with a copy of a Report drawn up in the Egyptian General Post Office in which the question is exhaustively treated.
§ MR. J.M. ROBERTSONBut is it not the fact that the Egyptian postal revenue is progressively increasing?
§ SIR EDWARD GREYThe amount at the disposal of the Government is dealt with in the Report, but it is not so large as the hon. Member seems to think.