§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTON (Tower Hamlets, Poplar)I beg to ask the Postmaster General if he will explain why the Government still adheres to the old system of running the mails between Tralee and Dingle by a one-horse cart at a cost of £430 per annum, whilst the Tralee and Dingle Light Railway Company have offered to carry the mails six miles further, and give additional facilities to the public, for the sum of £500, thereby causing a yearly loss to the ratepayers and also to the Treasury, the line being guaranteed by the Treasury and the baronies, and causing delays and inconvenience to the inhabitants of the district; whether he has received a memorial from the inhabitants of Dingle relative to the above; and whether he has taken any action in the matter?
§ SIR JAMES FERGUSSONThe Mail Car Service is maintained at a cost of £410, not £430 a year, because the Railway Company ask £90 a year more, and the service is already carried on at a loss. Moreover, the departure from Tralee by railway as proposed would be considerably later than it is by road.