§ MR. BROTHERTONTo ask the Postmaster-General if he can state when an underground cable will be completed to Wakefield, so that telegraphic communications can be carried on independent of climatic conditions.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) I am not proposing to lay an underground cable to Wakefield. The underground line from Manchester to Leeds, which I hope to lay during the present year will run viâ Bradford, and will render communication with Wakefield, practically secure.