SUCCESS OF CHEAP POSTAGE.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10298, 19 July 1907, Page 1

SUCCESS OF CHEAP POSTAGE.

The annual report of. the Post and Telegraph Department for the year eided- March 31 rexxfrds; a resolution i-> securing, if possible, universal penny postage, which': iSir J. Q. Ward introduced and carried at the Imperial Conference, and also states that since the reduction of the inland letter' rate o» November 1 1, the total number 1 of letters dealt -with in the period January 1 to.March ,31 exceeded 416,316 those posted during the corresponding; quarter of 1906. In that quarter the public saved £6359, while' the estimat"-' !i'fi«' of revenue is only £1088, a result more favourable than was expected. The report states that nearly 72> million letters were posted in <he colony, and: 5| millions were received ironi; outside the col-' ony, making 1 over 77 million, letters I dealt with, 'besides over IV million* letter cards, nearly 6 million post | Cards, nearly 24 million, .books and pattern) packets, the same number of newspapers, and nearly l£ million parcels. Letters increased by 11.11 perl oen*, letter cards by 15.92, post flards 58.66, parcels 14.32, and newipaper .38 over las* year. The <*»:- reyanoe of mails by sea oosb £60,611, conweyanoe of inland mails £53,981, and conveyance of mails by railway £33,665.