§ Mr. HARDIEasked the Postmaster-General whether since 1919 any improvements have been made in the gear connected with the collection and delivery of wayside mails; and whether when a mail van is attached to a passenger train this van is always in front of the passenger coaches?
§ Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSONNo alteration has been made since 1919 in 1455W the apparatus itself, but certain minor improvements have been effected in the wayside nets into which bags are received from trains in motion. It is the normal practice for sorting carriages attached to passenger trains to be marshalled in front of the passenger coaches, but in a few instances this arrangement is departed from, for the convenience of the railway company concerned.