§ MR. MACALEESE (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether the Post Office authorities in Dublin have abandoned the scheme formulated some time ago for the erection of a new post office in Clones; and whether he can state the date when the 502 people of Clones first complained of the great inconvenience they experience in having to transact their business in the corner of a small grocery shop where it is next to impossible to write out a telegram or obtain a post office order with any privacy, or transact any business without the knowledge of the shop customers.
§ MR. HANBURYThe Postmaster-General has not abandoned the intention of erecting a new post office at Clones, and the Board of Public Works is considering whether the best of the sites which have been offered for the purpose can be made to suffice. The earliest representation addressed by the inhabitants direct to the Department seems to have been in 1898, when they objected to a site which was then under consideration. The office is at present held in a shop one half of which is used for the sale of grocery, but no specific complaint can be traced of the particular inconveniences mentioned in the question. The arrangements for a new office shall be pressed forward as much as possible.