§ MR. LUPTONI beg to ask the Postmaster-General if, in view of the 989 fact that the Government will take over the telephone service on 1st January, 1912, and that 6,000 employees of the Telephone Company are to be discharged on that account, he will guarantee to the Telephone Company a return of their future capital expenditure, with interest, so that the discharge of good workmen may be stopped and the telephone service taken over in 1912 in first-class condition.
§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTONI have not anything as yet to add to the various replies I have lately given to similar Questions.