§ MR. CATHCART WASON (Orkney and Shetland)To ask the Postmaster General if, in view of the disabilities imposed upon the town of Lerwick and trade of Shetland by the present mail service, he will cause inquiry to be made in order to bring it more into harmony with the necessities and requirements of the people.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) The cost of the existing mail service to the Shetland Islands is so largely in excess of the revenue from the correspondence for the Islands that the additional expenditure which would have to be incurred to provide a more frequent service would not be justifiable on postal grounds.