§ Mr. RUPERT GWYNNEasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he will state what advantage is gained by numbering the pages of the OFFICIAL REPORT of the Parliamentary Debates on which the answers are reported in Roman letters; whether he is aware that in some cases eight letters are necessary to indicate the number of a page; and what objection there is to numbering the pages in the ordinary way as heretofore?
§ Mr. BALDWINMembers have frequently complained of the delay in the delivery of the OFFICIAL REPORT, and in order to print and issue the same more quickly it has been decided by the Publications and Debates Committee that the Questions and Answers shall be paged separately from the Orders of the Day. The advantage is that the printing of the latter can be commenced before the final "copy" for the former is available. The change has resulted in a distinct improvement in the time of delivery. This double pagination is limited to the Daily Parts, which are in the nature of proofs. The bound volume will, as hitherto, be paged consecutively in Arabic figures. It is hoped that the dual method of pagination may eventually be rendered unnecessary.