§ MR. HOGAN (Tipperary, Mid)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether the Post Office at Loughmore, County Tipperary, has now been closed for a period of more than two years; whether he is aware that it is the unanimous desire of the people of Loughmore that the Post Office should be re-established in connection with the house in which the postal business of the village was conducted during the previous 40 years; whether he is aware that the proprietor of this house, Mr. James Cantwell, is willing to carry on the postal business either on the original premises or in a separate building occupying one of the best positions in the village; and whether, with the view to putting an end to the present public inconvenience in Loughmore, he will consider the advisability of accepting either of Mr. Cantwell's offers?
* THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. A. Mouley,) Nottingham, E.The delay in the re-establishment of the Post Office at Loughmore has been due to the difficulty of finding a suitable person, not holding a publican's licence, who is willing to accept the situation of sub-postmaster. I cannot regard either of Mr. James Cantwell's proposals as satisfactory, as Mr. Cantwell holds a publican's licence.