§ MR. LALOR (Queen's Co., Leix)asked the Postmaster General, If he is aware of the very inadequate Post Office accommodation in the town of Carlow, which consists of one small room in a private house, not capable of holding half-a-dozen persons without overcrowding, making it difficult to transact business, and causing great inconvenience and delay to the public; if he is aware that the people and Town Commissioners of Carlow think that a public office would be the most desirable for so important a place, and that a good and central site, the old Assembly Rooms in Dublin Street, may be easily procured for the purpose; and, if he will take immediate steps to remedy the present most unsatisfactory state of things?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. RAIKES) (Cambridge University)I am aware that the Post Office at Carlow is no longer large enough for the convenient performance of the business; and negotiations have been carried on, not only with the landlord of the present office for an enlargement of it, but also with another person for larger premises altogether, but in both cases without satisfactory result. The Postmaster has, therefore, been instructed to advertise for better premises, and the first announcement appeared in The Carlow Sentinel on Saturday last. The amount of Post Office business at Carlow is scarcely sufficient to warrant the Department in incurring the expense of providing a building specially for its accommodation.