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the present increase in accommodation enables the registration and parcels work to be carried out with a proper regard for safety and despatch, the ordinary postal business is still greatly hampered by want of space. I regret therefore that the present arrangement cannot be regarded as a permanent solution of the long-standing and constantly increasing difficulty of insufficient Post Office accommodation, which in my opinion can be satisfactorily disposed of only by the provision of new and really adequate premises.
With respect to paragraph 3, I shall not overlook any opportunity for retrenchment which may occur, though in view of the increase in the work of the Post Office, I fear it is more than probable that before long