§ SIR CAMERON GULL (Devonshire, Barnstaple)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he can state when the provisional agreement between the Postmaster General and the National Telephone Company as to the extension of the trunk telephone line to North Devon, which was made last autumn, will be finally sanctioned and the promised extension made.
§ MR. HANBURYThe work necessary for the connection of Barnstaple and Ilfracombe with the trunk wire system has been authorised by the Treasury, 31st May, and will be completed as rapidly as possible.