§ 34. Mr. KILBRIDEasked the Post master-General by what method the names and addresses of farm labourers and other humble people who are depositors in the Post Office Savings Bank in Ireland can be obtained otherwise than through a Post Office official, as the names and addresses of these persons cannot be found in any directory, British or Irish; and whether he will inquire how an outside agency obtained those addresses?
§ Captain NORTONThere is no such thing as a list of Post Office Savings Bank depositors; and no one, even at the Central Savings Bank Office, could make a list of Irish depositors without consulting nearly two thousand ledgers, each weighing from four to seven pounds. Even then the list would not contain the names of Irish depositors who had opened their accounts at any post office in England, Scotland or Wales. So many persons in Ireland, as in the rest of the United Kingdom, are Savings Bank depositors, that any circular distributed broadcast, as was this circular, must reach persons who are depositors.