§ MR. M. HEALY (Cork)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether he is aware that a parcel posted at 11 a.m. in Cork for St. Anne's, Blarney, a few miles away, is not delivered till next morning, whereas if posted in Dublin at the same hour it would be delivered at St. Anne's the same evening; and that the only parcel post dispatched from Cork to St. Anne's leaves at six in the morning; and whether, in view of the serious disadvantage at which this state of things places Cork traders, some improvement in the system will be devised?
§ MR. HANBURYThe Postmaster-General is aware that a parcel posted at 11 a.m. at Cork for St. Anne's, Blarney, is not delivered till next morning; but the honourable Member is mistaken in thinking that a parcel posted in Dublin at the same hour would be delivered at St. Anne's the same evening. There is only one dispatch of parcels in the day from Cork to St. Anne's, namely, by the 6 a.m. train to Blarney Station. The afternoon mail from Cork for Blarney and St, Anne's is sent by the 3.30 p.m. day mail train, and as the train does not stop at Blarney Station, the bags are transferred by apparatus. Parcels cannot be thus transferred without damage, and there are not sufficient parcels to warrant a separate dispatch by a stopping train.