§ 64. Mr. Storeyasked the Postmaster-General whether his Department undertakes any responsibility under the scheme for sending duty-free cigarettes and tobacco to the troops overseas other than transmitting the parcels received from the wholesale tobacco companies.
§ The Postmaster - General (Captain Crookshank)My Department is responsible only for the period between the posting of the parcels and their handing over to the military authorities.
§ Mr. StoreyHas the attention of my right hon. and gallant Friend been drawn to a statement in the "Daily Mail" that Post Office officials agree that some tobacconists pocket the money they receive for duty-free cigarettes? Will he make it quite clear that no official in his Department has evidence to justify such a slanderous statement?
§ Captain CrookshankCertainly it sounds very slanderous, but I have not seen the article. I must see it first.