§ MR. PARKER SMITH (Lanark, Partick)I beg to ask the Postmaster General what sums were paid in the last financial year for mail services or otherwise by the Post Office to each of the following Companies:—Cunard Company, Royal Mail Company, Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, New Zealand Shipping Company, Union Company (African), Castle Packets Company, Orient Steam Navigation Company, and Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company; and whether any subsidies or payments for mail services were received by the same companies from any Colonial or Foreign Governments; and, if so, how much?
§ MR. A. MORLEYThe amounts paid by the Post Office in the last financial year to the Companies named were as follows:—Cunard Company, £49,399; Royal Mail Company, £92,855; Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, £49; New Zealand Shipping Company, £99; Union Company, £424; Castle Packets Company, £528; Orient Steam Navigation Company, £85,738; Pacific Steam Navigation Company, £20,114. I am not in a position to say what subsidies or payments for mail services were made to these Companies by Colonial or Foreign Governments.