§ MR. HENNIKER HEATONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, with reference to the subject of supplying a detachable counterfoil to a postal order, to bear the same number and stamp as the order, so as to facilitate detection in case of theft, whether there are any other objections to the plan beside the additional cost of the paper of the counterfoil and the cost of machinery for piercing the holes along the line of detachment; whether he will consider the possibility of printing both counterfoil and postal order on paper of the size now used; and, whether the cost of the machinery required would exceed the cost of a single prosecution of a Post Office employé for larceny of postal orders?
§ * MR. HANBURYAs I informed the hon. Member on the 3rd instant, the question of the best means of transmitting money through the post is at present engaging the attention the Postmaster General, and in these circumstances, the Postmaster General thinks that it would be inadvisable to enter fully into the questions raised by the hon. Member.