§ MR. J. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal S.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether the Postmaster General will favourably consider the propriety of complying with the desire expressed 651 in Newtown Cunningham, Manor Cunningham, and Great Johnston, that telegraph stations should be established in those towns, seeing that telegraph lines already run through them?
§ *THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY,) PrestonInquiry is already being made on the question of establishing a telegraph station at Newtown Cunningham, and the Postmaster General will communicate with the hon. Member as soon as it is completed. In the case of Manor Cunningham an office was recently offered under a guarantee, and the Postmaster General regrets that it will not be possible for him to afford the facility unless the guarantee be forthcoming. The other place to which the hon. Member refers is, it is presumed, St. Johnston, not Great Johnston. There has, apparently, been no previous inquiry for an extension to this office, but the Postmaster General will be glad to have inquiry made, and will let the hon. Member know the result. The wires to which the hon. Member refers as already running through these places serve other offices and are not available for serving the places in question.