§ MR. D. A. THOMAS (Merthyr Tydvil)To ask the Postmaster-General whether a sum of money was feloniously withdrawn from the Llangranog savings bank on the 25th November, 1904, and if any official of the local post office was suspected of complicity; whether any investigation was made into the matter; and, if so, whether the conclusion arrived at by the Department was communicated to the official suspected of complicity.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Burton.) An irregular withdrawal from an account in the Post Office Savings Bank was made at Llangranog on the date mentioned. The then sub-postmaster failed properly to carry out the regulations, and so facilitated the withdrawal; but no actual proof 1298 of his complicity was forthcoming. The inquiry was not carried to its completion, as the depositor in the account was unwilling to appear in a prosecution and gave a discharge for the money, and in the meantime it had become necessary to dispense with the sub-postmaster's services on other grounds.