§ MR. HERBERT LEWISI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, for the public convenience, steps will be taken to provide clocks in rural post offices visible from the outside.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, Worcestershire, E.)In the case of a post office provided by the Department a clock is usually placed in the window to enable the public to know when the clearances of the letter box are made; but in the case of a small office provided by the sub-postmaster, usually in connection with a private business, it is not the practice to require him to incur the expense of providing and maintaining an outside clock. Having regard to the large number of such offices and to the cost that would be involved in providing and maintaining an outside clock in each of them, the Postmaster General regrets that he would not be justified in proposing to alter the present practice.
§ MR. HERBERT LEWISI will draw attention to this question on the Estimates.