HC Deb 15 February 1898 vol 53 cc624-5
MR. J. P. FARRELL

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state the reasons which induced the Post Office authorities to refuse consent to the opening of a sub-post-office in the house of Owen O'Brien, of Legeelan, in the Blacklion postal district; and whether, before coming to their decision, careful inquiry was made by the Post-office officials as to the necessity for such office?

MR. HANBURY

It was found that the correspondence for Legeelan and the neighbourhool was not sufficiently large to justify the establishment of a sub-post-office. Careful inquiry was made by Post Office officials as to the necessity for such office before the decision was arrived at. I may repeat, however, what I stated last August, that arrangements were sanctioned for extending to Legeelan and the neighbourhood the official delivery of letters on two days a week.