HC Deb 07 March 1892 vol 2 c162
MR. WILLIAM O'BRIEN (Cork, N.E.)

I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether the post office in the town of Tipperary, occupied for the past 16 years, has been given, up, and the house of an evicted tenant, a widow lady named M'Grath, has been taken as a post office from the hon. Member for South Hunts; and. if so, why, and on, what terms?

SIR JAMES FERGUSSON

The old post office, consisting of one small room, being quite insufficient, has been given up, and, pending the erection of a new Crown post office, a couple of rooms have been taken in an empty house, lately occupied by the constabulary. The terms are £50 a year for one or two years. I am informed that, as a matter of fact, the house was formerly occupied by the late Patrick M'Grath.

MR. W. O'BRIEN

May I ask is the arrangement a purely temporary one?

SIR JAMES FERGUSSON

Yes, Sir.

MR. W. O'BRIEN

I wish to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, in the choosing of the new site, regard will be had to the fact that there is in reality a trade union dispute going on in the town of Tipperary between landlord and tenant; and whether he thinks it would tend to the public peace to side with the landlord by taking a house from which a tenant has been evicted?

MR. W. JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)

I beg to ask the right hon. Gentleman will he establish a post office in the town of "New Tipperary"?

SIR JAMES FERGUSSON

It is a fact that a site has been taken in the main street on a lease for 99 years, on which a post office will be erected.

MR. W. O'BRIEN

Do you mean from the hon. Member for South Hunts?

SIR JAMES FERGUSSON

As a matter of fact, it was taken from the hon. Member for South Hunts, in the main street, on a lease for 99 years.

MR. W. O'BRIEN

I beg to give notice that I shall draw attention on the Estimates to this matter, which I regard as very gross partisanship.