§ (16.) £17,000, Customs Department.
§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORsaid, this was a Vote which must provoke lengthened comments, because of an item of £15,200 for retirements and re-organization in the Department. This was so large a question that from selfish motives he must decline to enter into it; but he hoped the Financial Secretary would agree to postpone Vote 3, as, in the absence of the Postmaster General, it was hardly fair to go on with that Vote.
§ Vote agreed to.
§ (17.) £11,000, Inland Revenue.
§ (18.) £14,000, Post Office Packet Service.
§ (19.) £87,000, Post Office Telegraphs.