§ SIR CHARLES CAMERONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether the rule of the Post Office as to the registration of abbreviated telegraphic addresses, to the effect that the first word in such addresses must be a dictionary word containing not more than ten letters, and that proper names and compound words, i.e., words which appear in the dictionary joined by a hyphen, can only in rare cases be accepted, is intended to preclude the registration of arbitrary words consisting of ten letters, or constructed say from the first and last syllable of a firm's name, or spelling the initials of the designation of a club?
§ MR. HANBURYIt is the fact that the rule of the Post Office that the first word in an abbreviated address must be a dictionary word containing not more than 10 letters, and that proper names and compound words—i.e., words which appear in a dictionary joined by a hyphen—can only in rare cases be accepted, is intended, as the hon. Member supposes, to preclude the registration of arbitrary words consisting of 10 letters, or constructed from the first and last syllable of a firm's name, or spelling the initials of the designation of a club, unless, indeed, these syllables or initials happen to make a real word.