Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 December 1958.
The Post Office served notice on all the local authorities and public utilities before the work was carried out. We certainly do our best to cooperate, but the ownership of streets vests in the highway authority and only such an authority can do this sort of work. We cannot do it in the Post Office, but I shall certainly do my best to help.