§ 65. Captain WEIGALLasked the Postmaster-General whether postmen will not be allowed to early parcels of newspapers and doctors' medicine after to-day?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELNo change is contemplated in the arrangement under which certain postmen are allowed to carry parcels of newspapers and light packets of medicine which have not passed through the post, but this arrangement has necessarily always been subject to the condition in the case of parcels of newspapers that it must be withdrawn in any particular instance to which it is found to be detrimental to the postal service. It has recently been found at an office in Lincolnshire that the conveyance of private parcels of newspapers was impairing the efficiency of the postal service, and instructions were therefore given that in this case the arrangement must be discontinued. No similar instructions have been given in regard to light packets of medicine.