§ Mr. DEAN(for Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE)asked the Postmaster-General how many village post offices in the Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, are provided with telegraph or telephone facilities; how many are not so provided; and what steps are being taken to increase the existing facilities?
Sir W.MITCHELL-THOMSONOf the 263 rural sub-offices in the Parts of Lindsey, 118 have both telegraph and telephone facilities, seven have telegraph, and eight telephone facilities only. This leaves 130 post offices unprovided with telegraphic or telephonic communication, but in some of these villages telegraph business is conducted at the local railway station, and many others are within a reasonable distance of one or other of the existing telegraph or telephone offices. Telegraph and telephone facilities are extended in the Parts of Lindsey. as elsewhere, when the necessary conditions are fulfilled. At the present time the question of extension is being considered in the case of 10 villages in the district.