MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, seeing that it was recommended by the Tweedmouth Committee that lavatory accommodation would be supplied in Irish travelling post office carriages, he will see that this accommodation shall be supplied to the travelling officers who have applied for it.
§ MR. HANBURYLavatory accommodation is being provided in certain new mail carriages now being constructed in Ireland; but it is proposed not to provide it in the carriages at present in use until it is seen whether the accommodation is appreciated by the sorters in the new carriages. In a number of cases in which such accommodation has been afforded in England, the men, although they asked for it in the first instance, have, after experience, applied that it might be withdrawn.