§ MR. CALDWELLI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether he can state in what printed list of National Telephone Exchange subscribers are to be found the names and addresses of 40,000 National Telephone Exchange subscribers in the London Telephone area, who may be rung up by subscribers to the new Post Office Telephone Exchange.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,) Worcestershire, E.The National Telephone Company's Directory issued 185 last July, with the Supplement issued last month, contains the names and addresses of those subscribers who desire their names and addresses to appear in the Directory. The Company state that among the 40,000 subscribers connected with their London Exchange System are included, in accordance with the usual method of arriving at Telephone Exchange Statistics throughout the world, extension lines and additional connections. Separate entries in the Directory are unnecessary in many of these cases.
§ MR. HORNER (Lambeth, N.)I should like to ask the hon. Gentleman whether he is aware that the addresses in this telephone book are so indistinct and incomplete that it is sometimes impossible to know whom to call?
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINI do not think that arises out of the Question.