POSTAL SERVICE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 16, 4 September 1911, Page 6

POSTAL SERVICE.

SPEECH BY SIR JOSEPH WARD. , (Per Press Association.) Wellington, September 4. ' Sir Joseph Ward, speaking at the letter carriers’ dinner on Saturday, said he did not agree, with the movement for the uniformity of postage stamps 'for different parts of the Empire. The individuality of the country should be preserved. He saw no reason why Now Zealand postal and telegraph officers should not. exchange with England. The Vancouver mail route was practically settled upon. The Imperial Conference had agreed to a definite coxirso of ac lion with ■ regard to the penny postage system. Every opportunity would be availed of to bring other countries into line. The revenue of the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department was the highest of any country in the world in proportion to population. Before long lie Imped a second cable would be laid from Now Zealand to Sydney. Doubtless Bay would ho abandoned, and the present cable taken through a pipe to Auckland, messages being despatched from there. A similiar arrangement would be made the other side. Instead of the cable ending at La Perouso it wquld bo piped to Sydney. Ho was sanguine that before long the Government would be able to materially reduce the fee to telephone subscribers at a distance, and additional facilities would bo provided for establishing private lines.