§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLTo ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that a change has recently been made in the route of one of the town postmen in Ballyshannon, in the county of Donegal, whereby the morning delivery of letters in one portion of the town is delayed; whether he has received communications from the Ballyshannon Town Commissioners addressed to him and to the Secretary of the Post Office objecting to this change; and whether he will give directions to revert to the course of delivery which existed prior to the recent change.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) The change in the order of the first delivery at Ballyshannon, to which the hon Member refers, was made in the interests of the residents generally nearly a year ago. This was explained to the Ballyshannon Town Commissioners in December last, and they were also informed that I should not be prepared to sanction a reversion to the former arrangement unless they would furnish me with an assurance that the residents generally are in favour of such a course. Up to the present I have not received the necessary assurance.