§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, having regard to fact that the Postmaster General notified on the 29th ultimo that the extension of telegraphic facilities carries with it the extension of money order and savings bank business, is he aware that while the offices at Bach, Balallan, Barvas, Crossbost, Garrabost, and Portnagurran, Island of Lewis, are open for the transaction, of telegraph business, neither money order nor savings bank business is transacted at these offices; and, will he arrange for money order and savings bank business to be conducted at these offices at an early date?
§ MR. HANBURYThe Postmaster General is aware that neither money order nor savings bank business is transacted at the offices in question. It is the fact that, as a general rule, post offices which are telegraph offices do transact money order and savings bank business; but there are many exceptions to this rule, and the offices named by the him. Member are amongst the number. 910 As he has already been informed by letter, the transaction of money order and savings bank business can be authorised if a separate guarantee in that respect is forthcoming.