§ MR. R. M'GHEE (Louth, South)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, with reference to the site of a new post office at Lurgan, whether he is aware that the ground asked for from the Town Commissioners for this purpose is inconvenient, and that the business and trade of Lurgan is moving west of the present post office and in the direction of the Great Northern Railway Station, while the proposed site is considerably east of the present post office, and much further removed from the railway station; and whether he will make further inquiry with the view of securing a more central and convenient site for the convenience of the inhabitants of the town?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY,) PrestonThe Postmaster General is not aware that the position of the ground suggested to the Town Commissioners of Lurgan as a site for the new post office is inconvenient. It is understood to be about 83 yards east of the present office, and almost opposite to the Arcade, which the Lurgan Times of 24th February, 1897, in criticising the advertisement for a site for the new post office described as a building which is, and must always be, the most central in Lurgan. In accordance with this opinion all the sites which have been under consideration, other than the present post office itself, have been to the east of the present post office, and the hon. Member's Question contains the first suggestion which the Postmaster-General has received that a site should be sought to the west of that building.