§ MR. OSMOND WILLIAMSI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he is aware that letters addressed to Llannwchllyn are now conveyed by car from Bala, a distance of over four miles, and that a postman on foot follows the car along the same route to within a mile of Llannwchllyn, when he branches off and works a district, which is also worked or overlapped by two postmen from Llannwchllyn; and, as the train that delivers letters at Bala passes through Llannwchllyn Station on its way to Dolgelly, and in view of the saving to the Post Office Department and the convenience to the parish of Llannwchllyn, would he arrange for the letters for that place to be dropped at the station as the train passes through.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINThe postal service to Llannwchllyn is arranged very much in the way described by the hon. Member, but no more satisfactory arrangement can be devised, except at an increased expenditure, which would not be justified. With regard to the suggestion that the mail train for Dolgelly 64 should stop at Llannwchllyn to leave mails, the Postmaster General would remind the hon. Member that this question was considered only a few weeks ago. As the result, he was informed that, according to a letter from the railway company, an additional stop at Llannwchllyn would make the arrival at Dolgelly ten minutes later than at present. It would be impracticable for the mails for Llannwchllyn to be put out at that station, as suggested, from the train as it passes through. The Postmaster General regrets that, in view of the inconvenience to the public which would thus be caused, he is unable to adopt the suggestion.