§ MR. HENNIKER HEATON (Canterbury)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, seeing that there are Turkish, French, Austrian, and Russian post offices in Salonica, but no English post office, although more than two-thirds of the letters sent out from Salonica daily are for the United Kingdom, he will reconsider the decision he came to some time ago not to establish an English post office in Salonica, in view of the fact that extensive harbour works and other improvements are being made, and consequently Salonica is now becoming a place of great importance; and whether he can state what the cost and estimated revenue of a British post office would be?
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY,) PrestonFresh representations in favour of the establishment of a British post office agency at Salonica are at the present moment under the consideration of Her Majesty's Government; but the Postmaster General has no means of forecasting, with any approach to accuracy, what the cost and the amount of revenue would be.