§ LIEUTENANT-COLONEL PHILIPPS (Southampton)To ask the Postmaster-general whether his attention has been called to the inconvenience and delay to firms at the Southampton Docks owing to the present position of the telegraph office there; and whether he will consider if arrangements cannot be made for an additional telegraph office near the main dock gates, where it can be more easily, quickly, and safely reached by those sending telegrams, such an office to be connected, if possible, by a pneumatic 1098 tube with the present main office at the platform.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) Representations on the subject have reached me. I understand that a telegraph office is desired at the post office in Canute Road, but as that office is not a quarter of a mile from the head telegraph office another telegraph office seems scarcely justified. I understand, moreover, that a new entrance to the docks is being provided close to the head telegraph office, so that the latter should meet all requirements.