§ 70. Mr. MacNeill Weirasked the Postmaster-General what islands in the United Kingdom are required to pay cable charges on telephone messages; what islands are exempt from such charges; and what is the position of Northern Ireland?
§ Sir W. WomersleyThe islands within the United Kingdom to which special cable charges are at present applied are Lewis and Harris, Islay, Mull, Iona, Coll, Tiree, and the Channel Islands. No cable charge 1372 is now payable on calls between the mainland and Northern Ireland, nor to any other islands in the United Kingdom to which telephone service is available.