§ MR. FINUCANEI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether the Post Office authorities at Dublin have received a memorial, signed by over thirty ratepayers, requesting the establishment of a sub-post office at Ballincrana, or Gothoon, about midway between Kilfinnane and Kilmallock, 731 county Limerick; whether the memorialists have to send for their letters to a place over three miles distant; and, as the district is populous and the office certain to pay at least its expenses, will the prayer of the memorialists be granted?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY,) PrestonA memorial on this subject bearing seventeen signatures was received at the Dublin post office in May last. Gothoon is three miles distant from the nearest post office, but it has an official delivery and collection of letters. Correspondence for places in the neighbourhood at which no delivery is made is left at a shop in Gothoon. The Postmaster General regrets that, as the number of letters for the district in question is small, and as the post is already carried on at a loss to the revenue, the establishment of an office at Gothoon would not be justified.