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.
P.M.-Gen.: Say I am helpless.
Sec.: 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.
P.M.-Gen.: 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.
Sec.: 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.
P.M.-Gen.: Send him the usual negative answer, whatever it is.
Sec.: 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.
P.M.-Gen.: He ought to be fined a shilling.
Sec.: Here are letters from Liverpool and other cities complaining that registered letters to Spain
