NO PENNY POSTAGE YET.
AUSTRALIA'S DIFFICULTIES.
Per Press Aflsof lation. . ■■?': (Received. 11.25 a.m.) , A i; } ■•., MELBOURNE, Juiw) 49.. . hi. the House of- Representatives, in reply to a question p>nny *■'■ postage could not b© inaugurated to 1 coincide with the opening of ..Canberra the Postmaster-General,, . Mr Gibson, said the impracticabilitv.. of this being done would be seen' 1 vMtt' . he mentioned thgt since- he. cam& into office new* awards had added a million i sterling to the Department! s' wages hill. Me said that if Australians telephone; charges were the same as "those rnade'by private companies wjrfiW 6 Xlnited States the revenue to tW.Department would bo three millions greater than now. -. ■;;.»;:
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume LVIII, Issue 20, 19 June 1926, Page 5 (Supplement)
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