§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAM (Cork Co., N.E.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether his attention has been called to a memorial from the inhabitants of Rathcormac praying for a day delivery of letters to their village, distant some three miles from Fermoy; and, considering that a second delivery is already enjoyed by four villages situated respectively three, four, five, and ten miles from Fermoy, and having regard to the amount of the cost involved by a day delivery to Rathcormac, and that it is not a fixed rule of the Post Office that every portion of the system should be remunerative at first, whether he will take such memorial into favourable consideration.
1534 (Answer.) As stated in a letter sent to the hon. Member by the Post Office on the 12th of last month, the question of establishing a second post to Rathcormac has been recently considered, but it was found that the cost of the existing service is so high in proportion to the amount of correspondence that the expense of affording a second post would not be warranted. The Postmaster General regrets that he is unable to depart from the decision already communicated to the hon. Member.—(Post Office.)