POSTAGE STAMPS
COMMISSION OX HALKS WITHDRAWN. Stationers and others who have included as a line in their businesses the sale of postage stamps have just been notified that the small commission t&at has been paid hitherto has been withdrawn. The announcement reaches them in the following terms: —
"As Cabinet has recently decided that the practice of granting commission to licensees, depositaries and bankers, on the purchase of stamps is to be abolished, 1 have to inform you that iu> commission is to be allowed on sarle of stamps on and after Ist December next.''
The practise hitherto has been for firms and individuals licensed to sHI stamps to purchase them at a discount of U per cent. This a-llowaiiee of 35/ on the .=,ile of £100 worth of etamTJK •has in very few cases covered more than iho barp cost of handling- The. convenience to thr> public ha* l«vn very oocsidera-b-le. especially in the ontlymg suburbs. With the #ma-ll rommiesion wrthdran-n the establishments tha.t now handle stamps will discontinue doing co. anti besides the question of having to go to a poet office to prirchAse, hours of sale will, with the exception rtf the G.P.0.. be limited to between !) ando o'clock.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 282, 26 November 1921, Page 7
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