§ 79 and 80. Mr. NORMAN CRAIGasked (1) whether the notice dated the 16tli October, 1912, and issued by the Board of Inland Revenue is applicable to illustrations of postage and postage-paid stamps of foreign countries, and to illustrations of postage and postage-paid stamps issued by the British Government but no longer valid; and (2) under what Statute the Board of Inland Revenue have issued regulations in regard to illustrations of postage and postage-paid stamps, in so far as such illustrations reproduce foreign stamps and British stamps no longer valid, respectively?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe notice of regulations referred to in the hon. Member's two questions is applicable to postage and postage paid stamps of foreign countries. It is issued in substitution for a notice of the 1st June, 1906, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 65 of the Post Office Act, 1908, and covers illustrations of British stamps no longer valid. Current and obsolete stamps are reproduced indiscriminately for philatelic purposes, and it is not practicable or desirable to distinguish between them.
§ Mr. NORMAN CRAIGput a supplementary question which the Official Reporters could not hear.
§ Mr. MASTERMANPerhaps the hon. Gentleman will be good enough to put that down. I could only imperfectly hear it.