§ MR. W. T. WILSONTo ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the new system of counting multiple address and multiple page telegrams results in a financial loss to sub-post masters; and whether he intends taking 1146 steps to compensate them for this reduction of income.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) The new system— of counting, taken as a whole— will not result in a financial loss to sub-postmasters as a class, on the whole it will tend to increase their emoluments. In a few individual cases the new system might bear hardly, and I am in communication with the Treasury with the view of obviating any hardship in these few cases.