§ Mr. NEWTONasked the Postmaster-General, whether, in view of the national value for meteorlogical purposes of the telegrams sent daily from Clacton-on-Sea to the Meteorological Office, he can see his way to grant facilities for transmitting such telegrams free of cost, and thus relieve the ratepayers of that town from a burden hitherto voluntarily undertaken in the national interests?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELTelegrams are not sent to the Meteorological Office at the cost of my Department from any office; and I regret that I cannot accept the hon. Member's suggestion to send them free of cost from Clacton-on-Sea.