[829] Only five years before, Mr. Raikes, the Postmaster-General, said in the House of Commons: "I am inclined to think that it is extremely doubtful whether there would be much public advantage in establishing telephonic communication generally between those [the principal] towns" (Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cccxix, col. 664).
[830] Rep. Com., 1892, xvii, 278, sess. 1, pp. 17-18; 1895, xiii, 350, pp. 8, 34; Rep. P. G., 1896, pp. 16, 17; Rep. Com., 1898, xii, 383, pp. 35-37, 40; 1905, vii, 271, pp. 233-235; 55 and 56 Vict., c. 59, 59 and 60 Vict., c. 40; Parl. Deb., 4th ser., iii, coll. 168, 186, 196.
[831] Ibid., 4th ser., iii, coll. 166 f.
[832] Rep. Com., 1895, xiii, 350, pp. iii, 25-27, 60-62, 87, 90-91, 163, 176, 221, 223, 275, 281-82, 321-22; Parl. Deb., 4th ser., xxxi, coll. 207 f.; xlviii, coll. 463-66.
[833] Rep. Com., 1898, xii, 383, pp. iii-xiii.
[834] 62 and 63 Vict., c. 38.
[835] Parl. Deb., 4th ser., cxxiv, coll. 781-82; cxv, col. 841; cxvi, coll. 915-17.
[836] Parl. Deb., 4th ser., lxxxii, coll. 168-186; cliv, coll. 1067-68; clxiv, col. 87; London Times, 1906, July 6, p. 10; 1907, Jan. 3, p. 8; Feb. 9, p. 3; Mar. 22, p. 4.
[837] Rep. Com., 1905, vii, 271, pp. 10, 76, 79, 233-235.
[838] Acc. & P., 1902, lv, 25, pp. 4-10; Rep. Com., 1905, vii, 271, pp. 1-3, 53-54, 233-235; Parl. Deb., 4th ser., lxxxii, coll. 183; ci, coll. 1002-03; cxxxii, coll. 422.