Mr. LEICESTER HARMSWORTHasked the number of occasions during the months of August and September last on which the mails arrived late at Wick and Thurso, and the approximate period of lateness in each case?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELDuring the period indicated by the hon. Member the mail trains due at Wick at 12.40 and 4 p.m. arrived late on forty and forty-two occasions respectively, the average lateness in each case being twenty-four minutes. The mail trains due at Thurso at 12.33 p.m. and 3.45 p.m. were late on forty-eight and fifty-two occasions respectively; the average lateness being twenty-eight and thirty-eight minutes respectively.