Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office – in the House of Commons at on 24 March 1943.
Captain Harry Crookshank
, Gainsborough
Adoption of my hon. Friend's proposal would result in a heavy concentration of "last-minute" calls, which would be very difficult to handle promptly, and would result in the treatment of the calls being extended, as now, late into the night. I am sorry therefore that I cannot accept his suggestion which would in large measure defeat the object in view.