§ MR. SLOANTo ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware of the inconvenience experienced by the refusal of sub-post offices to cash postal orders when presented because they bear the name of the town and not their particular districts; and, if so, will he give instructions that all such orders may be cashed at any sub-post office in the town upon which it is made payable.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) It is the practice to cash postal orders which bear the name of a town at the head office of the town or at any branch office. To extend this practice to all the sub-offices in a large town would be likely, I fear, to facilitate fraud, and would render it very difficult to comply with requests often made by remitters to stop payment of orders.