§ 32. Colonel DAYasked the Postmaster-General if he will consider thumb-slotting the Telephone Directory with a view to providing an index owing to the bulky composition of this publication?
§ Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSONNo, Sir. The work would cost £10,000 year, and would seriously delay publication.
§ Colonel DAYIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that this would be a very great convenience to the public, and as there are 360,000 directories issued each year, the cost would not be very much over all of them?
§ Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSONQuite so, but I am told that it would take 100 men seven weeks to do it.