§ MR. LEAasked the Postmaster General, If he is yet prepared to reduce the charge for telegrams to six pence; if not, when he expects to be able to do so?
§ MR. MONSELLsaid, that the reduction of the rate for telegrams would naturally cause a considerable increase of work. At the present moment, at the head office in Telegraph Street, there was not room for a single additional instrument, and the clerks were overcrowded as it was. He could not say how soon the new building would be complete, and under the circumstances he did not think the time had come when he could give any more definite answer to the Question of the hon. Gentleman as to the practicability of reducing the charge.