§ MR. HANBURY (Preston)I beg to ask the Postmaster General what is the distance of the Money Order Office, in what was formerly Clerkenwell Prison, from the General Post Office; whether the Money Order Office is, by its situation, cut off from the rest of the Department; whether it is a matter of constant occurrence for persons, mostly poor people, to be sent from local post offices to the General Post Office, thence to Clerkenwell, and thence back again to the General Post Office over some trifling irregularity in a money order; and whether, on the ground of public inconvenience, as well as of the health of the officials, he will consent to the removal of the Money Order Office from its present quarters?
§ MR. A. MORLEYThe distance of the Money Order Office from the General Post Office is about a mile. The inquiry offices in the two buildings are connected by telephone, and a free omnibus runs seven times a day in each direction for the convenience of applicants whom it may be found necessary to refer personally from one office to the other. I regret that it is quite impossible to move the Money Order Office from its present quarters; but I am endeavouring to make arrangements to avoid, as far as possible, the inconveniences to which the hon. Member has called my attention.
§ MR. DARLINGasked whether the right hon. Gentleman had not received a Report as to the sanitary condition of this Money Order Office, stating that it was wholly unfit for the habitation of the people employed in it; and whether he would not, in view of these facts, have the office removed?
§ MR. A. MORLEYI have received no such Report.