§ MR. FFRENCH (Wexford, S.)I beg to ask the Postmaster General if he is aware that a letter posted in Rams-grange in the evening is delivered at Priesthaggard, three miles distant, at 10 a.m. in the second day after; if it takes two days to go three miles, owing to the departure of the rural postman from New Ross before the arrival of the Waterford mail; if a letter posted in Newbawn for Nash on Friday evening, although forwarded to New Ross on Saturday at 9.30 a.m., remains in the New Ross office until Monday morning, owing to the rural postmen leaving New Ross before the arrival of the Wexford 245 mail; and if he will look into the postal arrangements of the New Ross district with a view to give greater satisfaction to the public?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. A. MORLEY,) Nottingham, E.I will make some inquiry on these points, but it is obvious that the circumstances would not admit of direct local communication being established between small places like those mentioned, which are served from different post towns. As I stated the other day, the detention of the rural postmen at New Ross for several hours would be a serious matter.