§ MR. M'GOVERN (Cavan, W.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been directed to the inconvenience caused in the Carrigan post office district, in the county of Cavan, by the fact that no reply can be sent to a letter on the day of its receipt out of this postal district; and will he consider the advisability of making arrangements that the same messenger could bring the letters posted at Carrigan and Loughduff to Ballinagh, and of erecting a couple of letter boxes in the districts remote from Carrigan for the convenience of people in the locality.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) As the hon. Member was informed in a letter addressed to him on the 22nd of July last, it was found that the cost of the postal service in the Carrigan district then represented practically the whole of the postage from the correspondence. Unless the circumstances have materially changed, I should not be justified in incurring increased expenditure for the purpose of providing additional postal facilities at Carrigan, but I will make inquiry with the view of ascertaining whether it is now possible to effect any of the improvements desired by the hon. Member, and I will let him know the result as soon as possible.