§ DR. MACDONNELL (Queen's County, Leix)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether his attention has been called to the delay in the delivery of letters in the Newtown district of Queen's County; whether the alleged grievance has been acknowledged by the postal authorities; and, can he state when arrangements to remove this defective service will be completed.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINThe Postmaster General has lately authorised an arrangement under which Newtown and the neighbourhood will be served by mail car instead of, as hitherto, by postmen on foot. Under the arrangement, which will be carried out as soon as the contractor has provided a suitable car, the morning de ivery will be made nearly two hours earlier and the afternoon despatch an hour and a half later.