§ Return ordered, "giving the names of all Telephone Exchanges which the Post Office has at any time opened in the United Kingdom, with the date of opening: the number of subscribers at opening; the date on which each Exchange had the largest number of subscribers, and their number, the date on which each Exchange now without subscribers on the 31st day of December 1896, 1897, and 1898 on Exchanges then open; the number of subscribers who have given notice to leave any Exchange; and the tariff, in the following from:—
729| Name of Exchanges. | |
| Date of opening. | |
| Number of subscribers at opening of Exchange. | |
| Date on which each Exchange had the largest number of subscribers, and their number. | |
| Dates on which Exchanges now without subscribers became so. | |
| Number of subscribers on Exchanges open 31st day of December 1896. | |
| Number of subscribers on Exchanges open 31st day of December 1897. | |
| Number of subscribers on Exchanges open 31st day of December 1898. | |
| Number of subscribers who have given notice to leave any Exchange. | |
| Tariff. |
§ (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper No. 97, of Session 1898)." (Mr. Prorand.)