§ Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGEasked the Postmaster-General how much guarantee is required for erecting a public telephone call-office at Yarborough, Lincoln; what is the distance to the nearest available call-office; and what is the estimated population?
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§ Mr. LEES-SMITHThe most economical means of providing public telephone call-office facilities at Yarborough would be to erect a joint circuit to serve the villages of Alvingham and North Cockerington as well. The guarantee for all three offices combined would be £9 a year for seven years. Covenham, distant one mile seven furlongs from Yarborough, is the nearest existing call-office. The population of Yarborough at the 1921 census was 148.
§ Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGEasked the Postmaster-General what is the estimated yearly rental required for a private telephone within 100 yards of the post office at Ludford, Lincolnshire, and Girsby Post Office?
§ Mr. LEES-SMITHThe districts of Ludford and Girsby are both within the area served by the Binbrook Exchange, and the rental for an exclusive line to that exchange from a point within 100 yards of the Ludford Post Office would, at the residential rate, be £14 10s. a year. There is no post office at Girsby. This charge covers a line measuring three miles one furlong.