§ Mr. GIBBSasked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that, during two consecutive months of the past twelve, telephone subscribers in the York district were deprived of a telephone service owing to a breakdown in the system; and whether he can see his way to make any allowance during the current year to those flat-rate subscribers who were so deprived?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELI shall be obliged if the telephone subscribers referred to, whose service was interrupted for long periods owing to severe snow-storms, will communicate with the local telephone manager, in order that the circumstances of each case may be investigated and an allowance made where justified.