THE PENNY POST

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 14202, 26 October 1906, Page 7

THE PENNY POST

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The announcement recoir ed from the Postmaster-General of the United States, and laid before Parliament by the Premier, to the effect that letters having one penny postage from New Zealand would bo delivered in the United States without surcharge after November next, is of stick, vital and far-reaching importance to the people of Now Zealand, who will experience a saving of many thousands of pounds per annum in the postage required 011 American letters, that it calls for a national testimonial from the people of this colony to Sir Joseph G. Ward, Postmaster-General, who has been persistent and untiring in his great fight for hnivereal penny postage. May I suggest the form such a testimonial should take? A committee should be set up in every city and town in New Zealand to collect Id subscriptions. Each subscriber should enrol his or her name on lists that should be uniform in size throughout the colony. They should be finally bound in a volume do luxe and presented to the Postmaster-General as a testimonial of appreciation. The fund so created should be known as the Ward Penny Fund, and should be vested in perpetuity in a Board of Trustees and used to endow one or more scholarships in. the universities of the colony.—l am, etc., A. A. BROWN, Editor “The Red Funnel.” Dunedin, October 25, 1906.