§ 8. Mr. H. Hyndasked the Assistant Postmaster-General how many Venner time-switches were stolen from telephone kiosks in the London postal region during the last six months.
§ Mr. GammansSeventeen.
§ Mr. HyndWill the hon. Gentleman ask his engineering department to try to design an attachment which will make those switches less easy to remove?
§ Mr. GammansYes, but I would suggest that these losses, regrettable as they are, are not a very big percentage of the total. There are over 42,000 of these switches in operation, and in Greater London the losses have been only 17.