Mr. POINTERasked the Postmaster-General whether an agreement exists between His Majesty's Government and the Great Northern Telegraph Company regarding the leasing of the rights of the inter-state monopoly of telegraphic com- 145 munication between Great Britain and Norway; and, if so, whether he will lay the terms of the agreement upon the Table of the House?
§ The POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. Herbert Samuel)The arrangement under which the Great Northern Telegraph Company works the Anglo-Norwegian Telegraph Service in the United Kingdom on behalf of the Post Office has not yet been embodied in a formal agreement.