§ SIR JAMES HASLETT (Belfast, N.)To ask the Postmaster General, in view of the inconvenience caused by the rule that postal orders made payable at a town or city are payable only at the central office of that town or city to persons 743 living at a distance from the central office, will he alter this rule so that such postal orders may be payable at sub-offices.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) It is the practice to cash postal orders made payable at a town, without the mention of any particular office in it, either at the head office of the town or at any branch office. But I fear that an extension of this practice to all sub-post offices in a large town would be likely to facilitate fraud, and would render it very difficult to comply with a remitter's request to stop payment of an order.