§ MR. T. W. RUSSELL (Tyrone, S.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the defective postal facilities in the Clogher Valley district, county Tyrone, necessitates the extensive use of the telegraph by business men which might be avoided if letters could bf answered on the day of their delivery, and, as the existing railway service is suitable for a supplementary mail via Greenore, will he reconsider his decision.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) I have within the last few weeks fully considered the question of improving the postal service in the Clogher Valley district, and, as I informed the hon. Member in my letter of the 8th ultimo, I found that the cost of the existing service was so high that no further expense upon it was warranted. I regret that I am unable to modify that decision.