§ MR. WATTI beg to ask the Postmaster General whether he has yet been able to investigate and arrive at, a decision as to the anomalous position of Parkhead owing to the existing postal area in the east end of Glasgow; whether he is aware that Springfield Road is one-half in the Glasgow area and one-half in the Parkhead district, and that letters are frequently thus delayed as long as a day through business premises being a few feet on one or other side of the postal boundary; and whether, seeing Parkhead is one of the oldest and most populous districts of Glasgow, there is any objection to extend to it the same privileges as have been granted to Calton, Anderson, Bridgeton, and other similarly situated districts?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON, Manchester, N.E.)Inquiry has already been made in connection with a written application received from the hon. Member some time ago on the subject of Parkhead, 878 and a revision of the postal arrangements there and in the other suburban districts of Glasgow is now under consideration, under which the morning delivery and other services at Parkhead will be placed as nearly as circumstances will allow on the same footing as in other parts of the city. It is hoped, also, that it will be found practicable to include the whole of Springfield Road in the Glasgow Town District. But as the revision is a large one, some further time may necessarily be occupied before it can be carried out.