§ MR. T. M. HEALY (Louth, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, seeing that the postal arrangements of Cullyhanna, county Armagh, have been admitted by the postal authorities to be defective, he will explain why the mail comes by car from Monaghan, a distance of thirty miles, although there is a railway station within seven miles of Cullyhanna, and the district of Crossmaglen is already served by day mail from this station, and its letters delivered every morning at 8.45 a.m., while letters in the same train for Cullyhanna are not delivered till the following day, being kept all night at Newtown Hamilton; will he explain why in the arrangements now being made to combine the service of the day and night mails in the Crossmaglen district and deliver them together, Cullyhanna is being excluded, although the new arrangements will operate within a mile of its boundary; and whether he can see his way to include Cullyhanna in the same district as Crossmaglen, and thus effect a considerable saving of expense in a combined delivery.
§ MR. HANBURYArrangements have not been made for a combined night and 1470 day mail service in the Crossmaglen district. At Crossmaglen itself there are two deliveries in the morning. The expense of affording a combined night and day mail delivery at Cullyhanna from Crossmaglon, as suggested by the hon. Member, would be considerable, and a later delivery would be involved in waiting for the day mail letters. The Postmaster General regrets that in the circumstances he would not be justified in authorising such an alteration.