§ MR. MORTONI beg to ask the Posmaster-General whether in Wales the Post Office officials refuse to receive or deliver letters if addressed in the Welsh language, and will not speak to a Welshman in his native tongue; and whether, seeing that in Wales and Monmouthshire there are 280,000 Welshmen who speak their native language only, he proposes to take any action in the matter.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. SYDNEY BUXTON, Tower Hamlets, Poplar)The hon. Member appears to be under some misapprehension. The Post Office does not refuse to receive and deliver correspondence addressed in the Welsh language. Postmasters and postmen with a knowledge of Welsh are appointed in districts where such knowledge is found to be necessary.