§ MR. FFRENCHI beg to ask the Postmaster General is he aware that letters from Wexford are allowed to lie in the New Ross Post Office 23 hours before being sent out to the country sub-offices; and that a letter posted in Newbawn, a sub-office of the New Ross District, takes over three days to go to Nash, an office only three miles distant; and if he will look into the matter and see if it would be possible to remedy this state of things by detaining the rural postman in New Ross from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., when he would have not only the Wexford and Waterford mails, but also the Dublin mail, due at 10.30 a.m.?
§ MR. A. MORLEYWexford and New Ross are served from different lines of railway, but a local communication is maintained between them by mail car. It is only letters posted at Wexford too late for a despatch at 6 p.m. that miss the rural posts from New Ross next morning. Some misapprehension seems to exist with regard to the communication between Newbawn and Nash, for a letter for Nash posted at Newbawn before 8.15 a.m. would be delivered next 1014 morning. The detention of the rural postmen in New Ross for the arrival of the Dublin day mail, as suggested by the hon. Member, would be a serious matter, and I could only assent to such an alteration at the request of the great majority of the residents in the rural district.