§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that at Row, in Scotland. Petersfield, and other places, letters are delivered and collected by men who are neither employed by the Post Office direct, nor under allowance to postmasters, but are servants of mailcart contractors; and whether he will take steps to stop this practice.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) It is the fact that under certain exceptional circumstances letters are delivered and collected by mail cart drivers. This arrangement is made in the interest of the public service; and, as the same steps are taken for the security of correspondence as in the case of ordinary postmen, I see no reason for modifying it.