Note 700 — APPENDIXES

"The advantage of Imperial unity, which was held in 1898 to justify the sacrifice of revenue incidental to a measure calculated to bind together the United Kingdom and her possessions beyond the seas, cannot, of course, be urged as a plea in favour of universal penny postage; but apart from all other arguments for and against the proposal, the decisive consideration is that the British Government are not at present in a position to bear the very heavy loss that would be involved in the reduction of foreign postage from 2½d. to 1d."—Papers laid before the Colonial Conference, 1907; Memorandum by General Post Office (Cd. 3524), p. 500.