§ MR. FRASER-MACKINTOSHasked the Postmaster General, Whether his attention has been called to the fact that none of the Scottish Banks have seen their way to comply with the conditions required, in order to enable them to cash postal orders for their customers; and, whether, as there are no banks available through which crossed postal orders can be cashed, local post offices have been authorized to cash all such orders, whether crossed or not; and, if not, how payment of postal orders crossed generally, or to a particular bank, can be obtained in Scotland?
§ MR. FAWCETT,in reply, said, that on the 29th of April last, certain arrangements were announced with the view of obviating, as far as possible, the inconvenience with reference to the cashing of postal orders. He was glad to say that these arrangements had been so much approved of by the bankers generally, that a great number immediately adopted them. The others were adopting them every day, and he believed that, with a single exception, they had been adopted by the Scottish banks; and, therefore, he hoped the inconvenience to which the hon. Member referred no longer existed.