§ Colonel DAYasked the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the inconvenience caused by the present regulations as to printed paper rates, he will consider the revision and simplification of these regulations, so that such a con- 260W dition as that a typed copy of a circular letter costs three times as much as a duplicated copy of the same letter may be removed?
§ Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSONThe regulation to which the hon. and gallant Member particularly refers, requires that circular letters intended for despatch at the reduced rate, if not printed in the ordinary way, shall be reproductions obtained by some process commonly employed to prepare a number of identical conies, and shall be handed in in batches of not less than 20 packets at a time. The object of the regulations, which is in force also in the international service, is to protect. the revenue, and I do not sec my way to modify it.