§ MR. J. P. FARRELLI beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether he proposes to end the proposed telegraph service to Dring at that station or to continue same to Aghnacliffe Post Office, a short distance further, where there is a creamery, schools, chapels, and several business premises in need of telegraphic facilities.
LORD STANLEYThere are proposals for extending the telegraph to Dring under guarantee, and also to Cloonagh, which is in the same neighbourhood; and I should be prepared to make an extension, under guarantee, to Aghnacliffe. But I am bound to say that there is nothing like sufficient telegraph business in the neighbourhood to support all three offices, and that the calls upon the guarantors would therefore be heavy. Perhaps in the circumstances the hon. Member may be able to use his influence to induce the three places to combine in an application for one telegraph office, or at most two, to serve the whole neighbourhood.
§ MR. J. P. FARRELLIf a number of private individuals combine to give the guarantee will that suffice?