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 are) that I must put off the long-wished-for day for years. And this while every penny I possess is in the Government's own hands, in the 2½ per cent Consols and the Post Office.

Of course, if one could make by selling out, that would be another story, but I am told that will never be again.

Please forgive me for thus intruding on you.

Say I am helpless.

A correspondent asks if the Postmaster-General is aware that the Post Office Savings Bank refuses to take sixpences on deposit. Will he explain why a depositor is allowed to withdraw 19s. 6d. but is not allowed to deposit 12s. 6d. in the Savings Bank, and whether he will give instructions to abolish this anomaly.

Tell this correspondent that the refusal of the Post Office Savings Bank to take fractions of a shilling on deposit is based on the provisions of the Post Office Savings Bank Act of 1861, and no change could therefore be made without legislation, which legislation I do not intend to introduce.

Here is a letter from "F." (Forest Gate) complaining that he cannot put less than one shilling in the Savings Bank; and he asks you to reduce the amount.

Send him the usual negative answer, whatever it is.

A letter from Rev. J. C., clergyman in Banffshire, complains that he was fined a penny because a post card sent to him had tinsel on it.

He ought to be fined a shilling.

Here are letters from Liverpool and other cities complaining that registered letters to Spain