CAPTAIN CRAIGI beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware 891 of the inconvenience caused by the present arrangements of postal deliveries in Downpatrick, County Down; and whether he could authorise a delivery at about three o'clock in the afternoon, so as to enable business firms to execute on the same day orders contained in that mail; and can he state if the telephone service will be installed in Downpatrick and neighbourhood.
§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTONThere are already four deliveries by postmen at Downpatrick, in addition to a delivery to callers at the Post Office at 3 p.m. These arrangements are exceptionally liberal for a town of the size of Downpatrick, and I should not be justified in authorising any further extension. Subject to the approval of the Treasury, I shall be prepared to extend the telephone service to Downpatrick and other places in County Down under guarantee.
CAPTAIN CRAIGIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the complaint is not of the number of deliveries, but of the time at which they take place? Could he not take one off in the morning and put one on at three o'clock.
§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTONIf the hon. Member will write me on the subject I shall be glad to consider the matter of broadening the deliveries. I thought the complaint was as to the number.