§ Mr. FLYNN (Cork, N.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that requests have been addressed to the postal authorities by the priest and principal inhabitants of Rockchapel, county Cork, for an improved postal service and, in view of the fact that the mail service is at present carried on viâ Mallow, Abbeyfeale, county Limerick, 1113 Brosna, county Kerry, and Rockchapel, county Cork, a round of 70–80 miles at great expense, whether stops will be taken to expedite the mail service viâ the present Newmarket-Meelin route, the latter place being distant only a few miles from Rockchapel.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) An application has been received for an improvement of the service to Rockchapel, but as the existing service is carried on at a considerable loss I regret that I should not be justified in incurring the considerable additional expense which would be involved by serving Rockehapel as the hon. Member suggests, by way of New-market and Meelin instead of by way of Brosna.