§ 42. Mr. NAYLOR (for Mr. BOWER-MAN)asked the Postmaster-General the total cost of the additional buildings erected at Mount Pleasant; the number of the staff to be accommodated therein; and when and the manner in which it is contemplated to utilise the vacant land facing the main road?
§ Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSONThe cost of the new Mount Pleasant letter office is estimated at £208,500. The staff to be eventually accommodated therein numbers 2,820. On the vacant land fronting Farringdon Road it is proposed, when financial exigencies permit, to erect a stamp office and branch post office.