Note 88 — Chapter VII · The House of Commons Is Responsible for the Financial Failure of the State Telegraphs

Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, June 26, 1882, p. 422, Dr. Cameron moves the resolution: “That the working of the Postal Telegraph Service, with a view to the realization of profit, involves a Tax upon the use of Telegrams; that any such Tax is inexpedient, and that the profits derived from the service is now such that the charges for Inland Telegrams should be reduced.”