§ MR. CAREWI beg to ask the Postmaster General whether he is aware that complaints have been made in Navan, county Meath, as to the delay and non-delivery of letters addressed in Irish characters to the secretary of the Navan Branch of the Gaelic League; and whether he will arrange that post office officials in. Ireland shall acquire a knowledge of the Irish language so as to prevent a repetition of these complaints.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINNo such complaint has reached me. As regards the general Question, I can add 757 nothing to the answer given by me to the hon. Member for South Leitrim on the 10th instant.†