§ MR. BIGWOOD (Middlesex, Brentford)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he can say if it be the intention of the authorities of the Post Office to remove the telegraph pole in Bath Road, Hounslow; and whether he is aware that this pole has been the cause of much annoyance to the adjacent landholders, and that their complaints have remained unheeded and neglected by the Post Office authorities?
§ MR. HANBURYThe question of the removal of the telegraph pole in Bath Road, Hounslow, has formed the subject of recent correspondence, and the answer of the Urban District Council to the offer made by the Post Office in regard to the pole was only received on the 28th ultimo. The Postmaster General has every desire to meet the wishes of the Council, and of those interested in the matter as far as possible, but what is desired is that the wires should be placed underground, and he does not consider the circumstances are such as to justify the great expense which this would involve.