§ 29. Mr. SMEDLEY CROOKEasked the Postmaster-General if, in view of the recent alterations in the financial arrangements as between the Treasury and the Post Office subsequent to the Bridgeman Report and agreed to by the House, he will now consider the advisability of reverting to the penny-letter post?
§ Sir K. WOODThe cost of restoring penny postage would be about £6,500,000 a year. The Bridgeman Committee in their report stated that any marked alteration in the postage rates of inland letters would necessitate reconsideration of the arrangement which Parliament is now being asked to sanction.