BRITISH POST OFFICE
CHANGES . "•.:■•'.' (Britirt ;pme\*i,yfip>i^y RUGBY; 5. ■'-:'. (Received /March 8, at. 5,5 p;in.j ' Sir Ernest Bennett (Assistant Post-naster-general),preferring to the changes - which were taking place in the administrative'machinery; of the poet office, said that at the end,-of the month iit would enter on a ne# stage of ita financial development -in accordance with the recommendations of the Bridgeman Committee. Hitherto the revenue earned by the post office had been handed over, to the exchequer, but * in'friture a definite idhiof £10,750,000 Would be contributed to the national revenue and any surplus I would be retained by the post office, and expended for the benefit of the public • generally in.the.development of, the ser- ."_•■' vices or a reduction -of the charges, The acheme Wirt experimental but it had •very prospect of proving an outstanding . '•access.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22205, 7 March 1934, Page 7
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