§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Postmaster-General, having regard to the fact that during the last ten years letters delivered at Stornoway have increased from 458,328 to 863,824, letters posted from 353,704 to 679,224, parcels delivered from 19,708 to 48,204, parcels posted from 11,180 to 24,128, and seeing that these figures show that the postal work at Stornoway has doubled in the short space of ten years, will he state whether he can now see his way to place a faster and better steamer on the service, especially bearing in mind that in former years this concession has been withheld on the plea that the correspondence, etc., dealt with at Stornoway did not warrant the increased expenditure.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) The increase in the Stornoway mails to which the hon. Member refers has been accompanied by a substantial increase in the cost of the postal service in the Stornoway district, but I am looking further into the question.