§ MR. HAYDEN (Roscommon, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether complaints have been made by persons resident in Kilpatrick and adjoining townlands in the Parish of Collins-town, County Westmeath, as to the inadequacy of the postal delivery as affecting them; whether he is aware that two messengers leave the Collinstown and Drumcree sub-offices in the morning, one taking the Castlepollard and the other the road leading to Kilpatrick; that the returning points of both are distant by about half a mile, and connected by a public road, along which line nine families, constantly in receipt of letters, are deprived of the house-to-house delivery extended to the rest of the parish; and whether steps will be taken to secure a delivery of letters to these persons, and relieve them of the necessity of sending private messengers two miles to the post office to get their letters.
§ MR. HANBURYThe Postmaster-General cannot trace the receipt of any complaints as to the postal delivery in Kilpatrick and adjoining townlands in the Parish of Collinstown, County Westmeath. There are two messengers leaving the Collinstown and Drumcree sub-offices in the morning, as stated in the hon. Member's question, and there is a section of road which neither of them traverses. A new post has, however, been authorised to commence on Monday next, by means of which a delivery will be afforded over this undelivered section every weekday.