asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware of the constant complaints of business people at the inadequacy of the present sub-post office at High Cross, Tottenham; and when he intends to take definite steps to provide adequate premises?

I would refer the hon. Member to my reply on this subject, yesterday, to the hon. Member for South Tottenham (Major Malone).

In view of the dissatisfaction existing on this matter, is the right hon. Gentleman prepared to receive a deputation?

Certainly.

asked the Postmaster-General whether he will make arrangements that quarterly telephone and telegraph accounts should be submitted to private subscribers in greater detail than at present, particularly as far as trunk calls and telegrams are concerned, in order that subscribers may maintain a closer check upon the use of their telephones?

The present system of accounts seems to meet the requirements of the general body of subscribers. To supply all subscribers with particulars of each trunk call or telegram would cause considerable delay and expense. Any subscriber, however, can be supplied with fuller information on payment of a fee proportionate to the clerical work involved.

Could the right hon. Gentleman do away with the payment of this fee, and would he consider it a businesslike method of rendering an account in the case of a shop or other private business?

I am afraid I very often do receive accounts like that from shops. The supplying of all these particulars to everybody who does not want them is really costing the Department very large sums, but to anybody who does want them we supply the figures.

Will the right hon. Gentleman consider a division into two parts, at any rate, so as to show in the account whether the sum comes under trunk calls or telegrams? That would be helpful.

I will consider that suggestion.

asked the Postmaster-General (1) what are the Regulations in force governing the grant of wireless experimental licences, and upon what grounds the application for such a licence of Signalman W. C. Newman, No. 2,555,814, of the 56th Divisional Signals, Territorial Army, was refused in February last;

(2) whether officers and other ranks in the Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army, are given preferential consideration in the granting of wireless experimental licences; and, if not, whether he will consider the advisability of making such provision in the interests of His Majesty's service?

Experimental licences are issued to all applicants who satisfy the Post Office that the object of obtaining the licence is to conduct experiments in wireless telegraphy and that they are qualified to do so. The application made by Signalman Newman cannot at present be traced, but if the hon. Member will write to me supplementing the particulars he furnished I will have further inquiry made. Applications for experimental licences from officers and other ranks in the Royal Air Corps of Signals, Territorial Army, who desire to carry out experiments in connection with their Army duties, are given preferential consideration.

asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that outward mails to the United States of America are carried on fast British ships, and inward mails are carried on slow American ships; and whether he will take steps to accelerate the mail services between this country and the United States of America?

The mails despatched from this country to the United States of America are conveyed across the Atlantic by the fastest ships available, and in that respect it does not appear that any improvement is attainable. The mails from America are sent by ships selected by the United States Postal Administration.

Could we have the mails sent from the United States of America on English boats, which are fast and up-to-date?

That is entirely a matter for the American Postal Department. We cannot control that.

asked the Postmaster-General whether the Comptroller and Accountant-General of the Post Office has made Reports to the Treasury on the Post Office wireless telegraph stations, as promised in an answer given in the House on 19th July, 1921; and, if so, whether copies of these Reports can be circulated for the information of Members of the House?

The Financial Reports prepared by the Comptroller and Accountant-General of the Post Office in respect of the Post Office wireless services during the financial years 1920–21 and 1921–22 were included in the Post Office Commercial Accounts, issued as Parliamentary Papers on the 9th February, 1922 (No. 7), and 19th February, 1923 (No. 14), respectively.

asked the Postmaster-General if he will circulate a statement giving particulars of the high power wireless telegraph stations worked either by the Governments or commercial enterprise in the United States, France, Germany and this country?

I will have a statement, giving the particulars desired by the hon. Member, prepared and circulated, as soon as possible, in the OFFICIAL REPORT.