§ MR. J. P. FARRELLTo ask the Postmaster-General whether he is yet 1251 in a position to discontinue the experiment of closing Longford Post Office at 8 instead of 9 o'clock p.m.; and, seeing that this order practically reduces the county town of Longford to the postal level of a country village, and in view of the indignation locally aroused over the matter, will he direct the removal of this order.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) As I pointed out to the hon. Member, in reply to his Question of the 21st of February†, the usual hour of closing post offices in towns of about the size of Longford is 8 p.m. The experiment of closing the Longford office at that hour has not yet been in force sufficiently long to enable me to come to a decision as to whether or not the arrangement should be made permanent.