NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 146, 5 June 1913, Page 2

NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.

BRITISH CONCESSION TO THE DOMINION." REPOSTAGE IN ENGLAND. London. April 25. Tjie oversea visitm to England frequently complains nf tin- vm-y heavy cost «>f posting from one English address to another a copy t.f :t New Zenlaiid newspaper. The week lies, which are such a popular f< atore of New Zealand jour milismi. efttii cost lUd or 11<1 by the time they reach from the I.omlon office to a New Zealmdi r who is rn a t isit to the Old Gonntry. and this extot me impost Ims had the effect of preventing many visiting New Zealanders from going to the expense <n reading their own papers while abroad. British newspapers posted in New Z( aland have fm" vears been accorded i lit' ad vantage of the New Zt aland inland newspaper rates, and for seme years past continued cliens hue bcm made to ]>• rsuaiie (lie Briiisit Post (.Mice io make the : line ciiU-’cssion. li'.o liter was token ttp a year cr sj .'igo ,y .he Empire I’n ss i .moi,, xtii, h j„ th; otoi. | the hnpvrut! b-e ss C,- 1 s fe ri>> ■ to’ of I !K»i>, and a f tor w to pLUtoicnr to !ue Poshnrir (I:e (’llio. l has at lasi .■l'toCto J its 'rd- In his an mm I rm rnmlc hist evening, air. iti : vc" u.i'iiwrs v b.ich are published ';i ihe iluninimto if they hanpon to 1. e pG'sto.'i in '!i;r mu i-y, ba.v.' not ■lt - C'. :f m. i; I 2 11 (_• ’ S l' fl t <s 1 CU T i»1 fl U( I n. rpcv-to ra‘ c. An t imgrant in i .'too hr c-r A’irti'alia ?■ tids Home a cepe of a., Io ne wsyape.r to Iris trrm! brother wishca to ft"v. a• ■ d it. to r•:mc ('• i.b.c“ r«s 1 a tii e ; la-' it canmn be posted like mi EngliM nor. rmri to'. cud hits to be ; i-har go;| t.y v. The publishers '- / ii<llaii"t i < 1 > t i> i ■spa[; ( r s ar t ■ 111 1 i h huiidii’iippcd m efforts to obtain an ■ ormlhli eirciilc.l ion. although they pnay cmihr. mi to post office requireint n;s. The Empire Press I'nion tirgtol m« to ("ffei't. tins reform and ..w.eiid the lent fit of the English spaper "ale to the dominion new•.‘-■p.-ipei s. That I propose to do. it ma 'is legislation .tiini .! propose iin a lbw days to introduce a - ;r--'clause Bill ■.••i:i-'i I hope will lecviv.tin geiii’r.':l apprm al of tile House. Colonel Yale: ‘Wil! the Right Hon. g'rf’f ’em.-n include .India i" Mr. Smtmel: '¥•■•. all pi rtions of ' the Britivi Eteq>i re." I Tins <•'u’-'essioii would mean that | New Zealand newspapers would Im ■ transmitted from cm’ address to !.nether in Eiiyland, after the pas- [ sage <.(' bill' Bill, at a general rate of ito VI tom I less . t weight, At |ptoscin lhe (Hili' s i-i unt’t lines Cost j2d ei.e’n to post and llie weeklies, if; i,i!l 2d to 3. pl each.