HC Deb 07 February 1969 vol 777 cc177-8W
Sir B. Rhys Williams

asked the Postmaster-General if he will make a statement concerning the circumstances in which a telegram sent by the late Miss Diane Wood of Tregunter Road, S.W.10, on 17th January, 1969, was delivered in Bayswater on 21st January, 1969.

Mr. Stonehouse

The message was received as a Greetings Telegram on 17th January, with instructions by the sender to deliver it on 21st January. Deferred delivery is a regular service for Greetings Telegrams, and there was no indication from the message, or the circumstances

Research Council, formed in 1942. The two bodies combined in 1953. Tropical Stored Products Centre, London Road, Slough, Bucks., founded 1963, merged with Tropical Products Institute in June, 1967.

Anti-Locust Research Centre, Wrights Lane, London, W.8.

Founded 1945. Formerly research into locust problems started in 1929 under the auspices of the Committee of Civil Research at the Imperial (now Commonwealth) Institute of Entomology.

Tropical Pesticides Research Headquarters and Information Unit, Gray's Inn Road, London, W.C.I.

Founded 1963. Under different arrangements advisory, liaison and information work and research had been carried out for many years previously.

Tropical Pesticides Research Unit, Porton Down, Nr. Salisbury, Wilts.

Founded 1948. Formerly the Colonial Insecticides (later Pesticides) Research Unit.

of acceptance, that the Post Office should question the sender's instructions.

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