§ MR. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green)To ask the Postmaster-General
§ were as follow. Particulars for 1903 are not yet available.
§ whether he is aware that advertisements have been inserted in the Irish newspapers asking for tenders for boots for messengers in the service of the General Post Offices, and that samples of such boots have to be sent to a receiving depot in London to be passed; and whether, seeing that, if an Irish manufacturer secures the contract, he has to pay carriage to London, he will arrange that boots for use in Ireland shall be passed at a depot in that country.
§ (Answered by Lord Stanley.) Tenders have been invited from a number of firms in Ireland for the supplies required during the forthcoming financial year If any of these firms should receive the contract, arrangements will be made for boots for use in Ireland to be delivered in Ireland.