§ MR. J. G. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if he will state the number of postal telegraph offices in Ross and Cromarty, including the island of Lewis, at which money order business is not conducted; and will he state the number of money order offices in that county at which telegraph business is not transacted?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY,) PrestonThe number of postal telegraphic offices in Ross and Cromarty, including the island of Lewis, at which money order business is not conducted is 13. The number of money order offices in that county at which telegraphic business is not transacted is five.
§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if he will grant a Return showing the places in the counties of Inverness, Argyll, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Caithness, and Orkney and Shetland for which telegraph guarantees were asked during the years 1894, 1895, and 1896 respectively; also the amount of the guarantee in each case; and indicating the name of any such place at which a telegraph office has been established?
§ MR. HANBURYThe information asked for by the lion. Member was furnished to him as regards the year I893 in a letter dated the 31st March 1896, Statements for the years 1894 and 1896 can be prepared and sent to the hon. Member, but they will take some time to prepare seeing that tile information has to be picked out of a mass of correspondence.