§ The combined Estimates of £7,703,502 for the Post Office and Telegraph Services (exclusive of the Packet Service), are swollen by the large provision of £185,000 for purchase of sites to meet the great extension of buildings required by the development of business, especially that of the Parcels Post, all over the country. Excluding the charge for sites in both years the increased working expenses of the two services for the ensuing year amount to £327,484, of which the ordinary increment of salaries and the pay of additional staff have alone added in London £93,865, and in the provinces £168,642, the remainder being entirely due to the growth of business.