THE POSTAL CONGRESS.
WHAT GREAT BRITAIN HAS GAINED. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, May 30. ilr S. C. Buxton, PostmasterGeneral. has stated that he is glad to announce that Great Britain had succeeded at the Postal Convention in obtaining two considerable concessions. The first obtained was two additional votes, and the second that tire weight of foreign letters had been doubled, becoming an ounce. This also embraces letters under the Imperial penny postage system Foreign letters would he charged three-halfpence for each additional ounce. The charges would become operative in 1907.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2373, 1 June 1906, Page 2
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