§ MR. E. BARRYI beg to ask the Postmaster General whether he is aware 12 that owing to the defective postal arrangements in West Cork a letter posted in Glandore for Rosscarbery, a distance of four miles, is taken a round of 106 miles before being delivered in Rosscarbery; and whether he will take any steps to remedy this extraordinary and anomalous state of things?
§ MR. A. MORLEYThe two places mentioned by the hon. Member are served from separate post towns—namely, Skibbereen and Bandon; and the communication between them is necessarily circuitous. But the postal arrangements are not defective, in as much as a letter posted at Glandore up to 4.20 p.m. is delivered early next morning at Rosscarbery. The local correspondence would not admit of a special direct communication being established between Rosscarbery and Glandore.