§ MR. HERMON-HODGE (Oxon, Henley)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether the parcels for Dawson City, Klondyke, are still received at all English post offices, and are conveyed to Ottawa before the senders are advised that there is no parcel, post to Dawson City; and why such information is not furnished to English consignors in less time than four months from the dispatch of their parcels?
§ MR. HANBURYParcels for Dawson City and other places in the Yukon District are no longer forwarded from here to Canada by parcel post. Until recently such parcels have been sent to British Columbia (not to Ottawa) in accordance with information supplied by the Canadian Post Office. It appears however, from notices recently received, that, owing no doubt to the difficulties of transport, that office has been unable to send parcels to the district in question; and instructions have been given not to accept such parcels for transmission by parcel post from this country. The Postmaster-General is endeavouring to ascertain positively why the Canadian Post Office did not, until a week or two ago, report that parcels from the United Kingdom for Dawson City, &c, were lying undelivered in Canada. He can only suppose that early means of sending on the parcels were hoped for.