§ Mr. NEVILLEasked the Postmaster-General whether the post offices of Burnley, Bolton, Oldham, Preston, Warrington, and many other of the larger towns in Lancashire, are open for the transmission and delivery of telegrams at 7 a.m.; whether the post office at Wigan is not so open until 8 a.m.; and, if so, on what principle this discrimination against the early markets of Wigan is based and justified?
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§ Captain NORTONThe hour of opening for public telegraph business is 7 a.m. at Bolton, Preston, and Warrington post offices, and at 8 a.m. at Burnley, Oldham, and Wigan. At Wigan post office it was formerly 7 a.m., but was changed to 8 a.m. in December, 1911, because of the very small amount of work done before 8 a.m., amounting to less than three telegrams a day both sent and received. Telegrams can be sent between 7 and 8 a.m. from either the Lancashire and Yorkshire or the London and North-Western railway stations, which are only 100 and 360 yards respectively from the Wigan post office, or can be telephoned by telephone subscribers, to Liverpool or Manchester. The attendance for public telegraph business is determined by the amount of work to be done.