§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, in view of the difficulty experienced by the public in securing a registered abbreviated telegraphic address in London in consequence of most suitable words having already been appropriated, will the Postmaster General state the number of addresses now registered in London and in the provinces respectively, and, seeing that the present charge is only one guinea per annum, will he say whether he has yet decided to increase it.
(Answer) The number of telegraphic addresses registered by the Post Office is 25,048 in London and 39,267 in the provinces. The Postmaster General has not decided to increase the present charge.—(Treasury.)