§ MR. DALYI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he is aware that the inhabitants of the townlands of Kilkit, Aghist, Mullinary, Carrickatee, Cortannell, Cortahort, etc., about four miles from Ballybay, county Monaghan, are greatly inconvenienced with regard to insufficient postal arrangements; and that in the townlands mentioned the inhabitants have to travel miles to either receive or post letters; and whether he will have the house-to-house delivery of letters immediately commenced in these thickly populated districts?
§ MR. HANBURYThe attention of the Postmaster General has not previously been called to the insufficient postal arrangements at Kilkit, and the other townlands mentioned by the honourable Member. Inquiry will be made, and the Postmaster General will see that the promise of the Government is redeemed, that there shall be a house-to-house delivery of letters, but he is afraid he cannot fix a date at which such delivery shall be commenced. The extension of rural post deliveries in Ireland is proceeding as rapidly as possible, but the work of rearranging the posts is so great that the order in which the various areas are dealt with must be left somewhat to the discretion of the Irish Postal Surveying Staff.