§ Mr. MURCHISONasked the Postmaster-General approximately how many newspapers posted in Australia were distributed in the United Kingdom in any one recent year and the corresponding number in the same year of British newspapers sent to Australia, the stamp revenue of which was received by the General Post Office?
§ Mr. PEASEIn the foreign and colonial post no statistics are taken of newspapers as distinct from the rest of the printed papers mail; but it may be assumed that newspapers form the larger part of that mail. The statistics of the2082W foreign and colonial post are based on weight, not on number. The total weight of the printed papers mails despatched from the United Kingdom to Australia in 1920 was about 2,170,000 lbs., and in the reverse direction about 506,000 lbs.