§ 66. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Postmaster-General if he has yet considered the letter sent to him by the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North enclosing a letter from a leading Aberdeen business firm giving details of loss of business and threatened unemployment due to the recent stoppage of the long-existing second postal delivery on Saturdays; if he realises the great loss of business and trade and the danger of unemployment which this stoppage is causing to Aberdeen; and if he will now, in view of this new evidence, reconsider his recent decision and restore to Aberdeen its second postal delivery on Saturdays.
§ Mr. K. ThompsonI do not find in the letter which the hon. and learned Member has sent to my right hon. Friend any evidence that the withdrawal of the Saturday delivery is causing either loss146W of business and trade or a danger of unemployment in Aberdeen; and I should not be justified in restoring the delivery exceptionally to Aberdeen. My right hon. Friend will reply to the hon. and learned Member's letter as soon as he has completed his inquiries into that part of it which concerns the Post Office.