§ MR. E. M'HUGH (Armagh, S.)I beg to ask the Postmaster General if he will explain how it is there is only one delivery of letters in the day in Poyntz-pass whilst there are three deliveries in the adjoining towns of Tanderagee and Scarva; whether he is aware that English letters for Poyntzpass arriving in Newry at 8 a.m. are detained there for 21½ hours before being despatched the following morning at 5.30 a.m., whilst they could be despatched by the mail train which passes Poyntzpass at 11.45 a.m. every day; and if he will see to this grievance being remedied by having arrangements made that in future the mail train will put off the mails as it passes the town?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. A. MORLEY, Nottingham, E.)The facts are as stated by the hon. Member; but unfortunately the revenue will not admit of more than one post in the day to Poyntzpass. Even now the cost of the service exceeds the available revenue, and I regret that further outlay is not warranted for accelerating the delivery of English letters numbering less than 25 a day, or for the arrangements which would be necessary for exchanging mails by apparatus at the station named.