§ MR. RADCLIFFE COOKE () HerefordI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he would consider the advisability of telegraphing the daily weather forecasts issued by the Meteorological Office to postal telegraph offices in 938 country districts where the daily papers are not received until late on the day of publication, or until the day following the day of publication.
§ MR. HANBURYSuch a. system was tried for two years by the Board of Agriculture, but was abandoned in 1895. The areas to which the forecasts apply are so large—there are only, I think, six for the whole United Kingdom that the forecasts were found to be too wide and general to allow of anything like close accuracy in any particular locality. I will see whether they cannot be supplied very cheaply to the subscribers at local post offices.
§ MR. RADCLIFFE COOKEAre not the weather forecasts more accurate now than formerly?
§ MR. HANBURYI cannot vouch for their accuracy.