§ MR. BLANE (Armagh, S.)I beg to ask the Postmaster General why the postal authorities refused to erect receiving boxes in Gortmore and Campsie, Omagh, on the recommendation of the Omagh Town Commissioners, and on whose application they removed the receiving box from George's Street to High Street, which removal the Commissioners recommended only contingent on the erection of a new box at Gortmore; and why this box has been removed from George's Street to a position further from Gortmore than formerly?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N.E.According to the usual rule of the Department, the circumstances would not have justified the erection of additional letter boxes at Omagh, in the positions recommended by the Town Commissioners. The distance from existing receptacles is only about 120 (Campsie) and 220 (Gortmore) yards respectively, and the number of letters likely to be posted is very small. The pillar box in George's Street was inconveniently situated, and was, moreover, too small for the correspondence posted in it. It was, therefore, removed, and a larger box was placed in a prominent position in the High Street, only 25 yards from the original site.