HC Deb 25 May 1897 vol 49 c1264
MR. WEIR

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 England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales respectively at which money order business is not conducted; and will he also state the number of money order offices in each of those countries at which telegraph business is not transacted?

MR. HANBURY

The number of postal telegraph offices at which money order business is not transacted is as follows:

England and Wales 323
Scotland 191
Ireland 33
Total 547

which is what I stated on Thursday last. The number of money order offices at which telegraph business is not transacted is as follows:—

England and Wales 4,151
Scotland 227
Ireland 367
Total 4,745

While money order business is usually carried on at all telegraph offices, it is not of course the case, as the hon. Member seems to assume, that telegraph business is usually carried on at all money order offices.