§ Sir A. WILLIAMSONasked the Postmaster-General if he will state the cause of delay in providing rural party-line telephones in Morayshire; and when does he 1966W expect the installation in Lhanbryde district to be commenced?
§ Mr HERBERT SAMUELAny delay in providing rural party-lines at places in Morayshire is now attributable mainly to the fact that the number of subscribers obtainable is not sufficient to meet the conditions. The installation in Llanbryde is in hand, and a scheme for providing a line to Duffus is being considered.
§ Sir A. WILLIAMSONasked the Postmaster-General whether he has refused to extend the telephone to Grantown; whether he is aware that in the summer months Grantown is visited by many tourists, and that professional and business men from Edinburgh, Glasgow, and elsewhere spend their vacations there; whether he is aware that such visitors make use of a trunk service; whether any other equally important resort in the Kingdom is now without one; and whether he will take the matter into reconsidertion?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe amount of support obtained to the proposed exchange at Grantown has not hitherto been sufficient to justify its establishment, but a further canvass will be undertaken and every effort made to obtain a sufficient number of subscribers.