§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, if he will state the number of post offices in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, respectively, at which money order and savings bank business is conducted, and the number of offices in each country at which this business is not transacted?
§ MR. ANSTRUTHER (for Mr. HANBURY)The number of post offices at which money order and savings bank business was conducted on the 1st of last month was 12,659, distributed as follows:—England, 9,447; Wales, 824; Scotland, 1,225; Ireland, 1,163. The number of post offices at which such business was not transacted was about 9,000. The distribution of these in various parts of the United Kingdom cannot be stated until the returns now being taken are completed.