It begins to be clear that we want another coin. The London Passenger Transport Board says that penny. Dus fares must_go. up toa penny-hal Penny. The London County. Counci others are resisting and argu ment fs stil going on, but we know well enough how: it will end. "The extra cent of the Journey is only a Title more annoying than having' to arty a supply of ha'pennies, easenti= Sily'a mean and meagre sort of coin. What' we want therefore. is coin worth idid That it would add the confusion of foreigners, already Sullciently mazed by our currency, cannot be helped. In these times out must think of oneself, or rather one's own. people, Li all sorts of Svays the extra halfpenny is intruding prices, Petrol as just been put up to Is, 11d. the gallon. In the Popular tea-shops a cup of tea cost 2igd. "And many" of the fares on the tubes tun to extra annoying halt Pennies.
incidentally, the 24d. postage has cut. down' the volume of letters that "many postmen are' being discharged' because there are not enough felters to go. round among them=—which really is very hard luck on a fass who do much drudgery and get ery Small wages for it "As for writing Telters abroad, une tess one can use' air mail, it i really drawing © bow ata venture, "The 'Times today mentions that copies of its Issues for May have just reached Sweden. They went all the way' found by the Balkans and Russia,
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