§ 41. Mr. Dayasked the Postmaster-General the number of temporary telegraph offices opened by his Department on the various racecourses for the purpose of dealing with ordinary telegraph business and / or Press telegrams in the course of the racing season; and the approximate number of telegrams forwarded from these offices for the 12 months ended to the last convenient date?
§ The Assistant Postmaster-General (Sir Walter Womersley)The number of temporary telegraph offices opened on racecourses during the year ended 31st March, 1938, was 300, from which 179,000 ordinary telegrams and 52,000 pages of Press matter were forwarded.
§ Sir W. WomersleyA slight decrease.