§ DR. TANNER (Cork Co., Mid)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether the Postmaster General's attention has been called to the request for a daily mail service from Derinacahara (Dunmanway, County Cork) to Cool-mountain, the present delivery being only three times weekly; and if the request submitted will be complied with?
§ * MR. HANBURYThe Postmaster General's attention does not appear to have been called to the desire for a daily post from Derinacahara to Coolmountain in lieu of the present service three days a week, but the matter shall be inquired into.
§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether the communication that was promised to be made by the Postmaster General in favour of facilitating the acceleration of the mails in the Donoughmore district, Blarney, County Cork, has been made, and with what results; and whether, in view of the fact that widespread dissatisfaction with the existing system is expressed, a, speedy reform may be made, the new light railway being utilised for the purpose?
§ * MR. HANBURYFigures have been obtained in regard to the posts in the Donoughmore district, which show that no improvement of delivery at Donoughmore in the morning, or of dispatch in the afternoon, would result from the substitution of a service by railway for the existing service by road. There was a further question whether a second delivery in the day might not be afforded by means of the railway, but the number of letters that would fall into a second delivery is found to be far from sufficient to warrant the necessary cost attending the additional service.