§ MR. ELLIS GRIFFITH (Anglesey)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether the Anglesey Standing Joint Committee and the Anglesey County Council have called his attention to the lack of telegraph facilities in Gaerwen, Anglesey; and whether, seeing that the London and North Western Railway station, which is a considerable distance from the village of Gaerwen, is the only place within the district from which telegrams can be sent, and taking into account the interests of the public and the difficulty of communicating with the police in the Gaerwen district, he will take steps to place telegraph facilities within reach of the inhabitants of Gaerwen without requiring any financial security.
§ MR. HANBURYThe Postmaster General is unable to trace any application from the local authorities referred to, but his attention was drawn by the hon. Member himself a month or two ago to the need of a telegraph office at Gaerwen, and on the 19th ult. the terms on which such an office could be opened were stated. The estimated telegraph business is too small to justify the opening of the office without guarantee. The railway station, where telegrams are received for despatch, is slightly under a mile from 939 the village, the station. There is no delivery from the station.