§ VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGHI beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether, as the Telegraph (Construction) Bill proposes to deal with nine sections in three separate statutes forming part of a series of the twenty-two Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1906, by incorporation, reference, or repeal, he will cause a Memorandum to be issued, showing in plain language the effect of the suggested legislation, especially so far as it proposes to enable the Postmaster-General to interfere with ornamental or other trees at the sides of rural roads and public footpaths in rural districts.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. SYDNEY BUXTON, Tower Hamlets, Poplar)I shall be glad to meet the wishes of the hon. Member and will lay a Memorandum on the Table to accompany the Bill in question.