§ MR. HALPINI beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether, in connection with the postal system to Quilty, a station on the South Clare Railway, having a large fishing and kelp industry, also a coastguard and a police station, he will have the mails delivered there by morning and mid-day or evening trains, and not have them as at present brought by cyclists in the morning from Miltown Malbay to Spanish Point, Quilty, Mullagh, and Clonadrum, which is an inconvenience to the industries and general public.
I beg further to ask the Postmaster-General whether he will establish a telegraph station at Quilty, on the west coast of Clare, to which a number of messages are sent in connection with the fish-drying and kelp industries, and which would be a near station to Mullagh, Clonadrum, Coore, &c, where the inhabitants have to pay heavy charges for telegrams from the nearest station, viz. Miltown Malbay.
§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTONI regret that in view of the large expense already incurred I should not be justified in authorising a second post at Quilty, 726 Mullagh and Clonadrum. There is already a second post to Spanish Point. The question of serving the Quilty district by train and of establishing telegraph business at the Quilty Post Office is still under inquiry and I will communicate further with the hon. Member.