§ MAJOR ANSTRUTHER-GRAYI beg to ask the Postmaster General whether he will consider the advisability of reducing the rate of postage on newspapers and periodicals sent from the United Kingdom to Newfoundland to 1d. per pound, thus establishing the same rate as applies in the case of newspapers and periodicals sent from this country to Canada.
§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTONThe reduction of postage on magazines and periodicals to Canada was based on the very special and peculiar position occupied by that Dominion, as the result of which British periodicals were unable to obtain a footing in Canada, their places 1571 being taken by publications from the United States. These conditions, as far as I am aware, do not prevail in Newfoundland. The rate on newspapers from the United States to Newfoundland is, according to the latest information available, the usual Postal Union rate, identically the same as the rate from Great Britain to Newfoundland. There does not appear, therefore, any reason for extending the Canadian Magazine Post to Newfoundland.