§ MR. THOMAS O'DONNELL (Kerry, W.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been called to the inconvenience caused in poor districts in Ireland owing to the delay in forwarding advices to post office orders issued abroad; and, if so, whether steps will be taken to have a second advice issued and sent direct to the paying office.
LORD STANLEYI am aware that the system of transmitting through the Chief Money Order Office in London all advices of money orders issued abroad for payment in the United Kingdom may in some cases cause a certain amount of delay in payment, not only in Ireland, 537 but elsewhere; but I am not, as at present advised, prepared to alter the system, which possesses great advantages.
§ MR. THOMAS O'DONNELLIs the noble Lord aware that in many parts of the West of Ireland the delay often extends to a fortnight?