HC Deb 27 July 1925 vol 187 cc53-4W
Colonel DAY

asked the Postmaster-General how7 many of the special British Empire Exhibition commemorative stamps were sold in the grounds of Wembley this year as to the most convenient date, together with the number of stamps sold for the corresponding period of last year?

Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON

The numbers of special British Empire Exhibition stamps sold up to the 17th of July this year were

1d … … … 731,465
l½d … … … 735,206.

For the period to the 15th of July last year the figures were

1d … … … 2,822,977
l½d … … … 2,613,883