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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1683, 1 June 1904, Page 2

Sir J. G. Ward has received a letter from London, dated March 25th, about penny postage and other postal matters, from a prominent member of the House of Commons. The following extract is interesting:—“l am greatly disappointed to find that in consequence of the postponement of the Postal Union meeting you are not coming Home this year, as I had made some important plans for your benefit. Long before this reaches you I hope you will receive a telegram announcing penny postage between the United Kingdom and Australia. The King has written me a letter, saying he cannot conceive why the absurdity is tolerated of penny letters to New Zealand and India, and 2}d letters to Erance, considering that your Ne;v Zealand letters pass through France every Friday. The King is a great supporter of universal penny postage, as be was of Imperial penny post...i: