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 40. Telephone calls to all parts of the Kingdom to be reduced.

41. Magazine post at the rate of eight ounces for one penny.

42. All bona fide periodicals issued for sale to be registered and transmitted at newspaper rates.

43. Sailors and soldiers serving abroad to have their letters sent postage free.

44.

The following notice on the Parliamentary paper explains itself:—Mr Henniker Heaton: Halfpenny Post.

To call attention to the halfpenny post regulations of the British Post Office, and to the fact that tens of thousands of British subjects are fined annually for breaches of these regulations through being unable to define what is halfpenny matter and what is in the nature of a letter; and to move: that, inasmuch as the Postal Guide contains more than two pages of definitions, and that there are only two persons in the Post Office who know what can and what cannot be sent by the halfpenny post, and that these two disagree, steps be taken forthwith to revise and simplify the definitions and regulations.

45.

All coupons for reply stamps cost 3d.—that is, 2½d. for the stamp and ½d. commission. Now that postage is reduced to India, to all the Colonies of the British Empire, and to the United States of America and Egypt, to 1½d., coupons for reply stamps should not cost more than 14d. each to these countries.

46. The Post Office Savings Bank to accept pence.

47. The system of mail subsidies to be placed on a business footing.