§ MR. STEADMAN (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if the Department can see its way to relieve rural postmen of the responsibility of finding sites for shelters for their use at the outward end of their journey.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HANBURY,) PrestonThe present arrangement under which postmen obtain the necessary permission for placing shelters at the end of their walks is found to be convenient and to work without any practical difficulty; and the Postmaster General sees no reason for changing it. The shelters have sometimes to be moved from one point to another; and a formal tenancy of the site by the Postmaster General would in many cases create difficulties.