§ Mr. GRANTasked the Postmaster-General if he will consider the inclusion of the local doctor in any new scheme he may formulate for facilitating the use of telephones for farmers in rural districts?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELAs I stated in my reply of 25th May last to the hon. Member for Andover, it is not proposed to exclude doctors or other classes of residents in rural districts at considerable distances from telephone exchanges from the use of the cheap telephone party lines when the facilities which can be given by means of such lines are sufficient for their purposes.