§ 22. Mr. J. P. FARRELLasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that a densely populated district between Longford and Esker post offices has only a bi-weekly delivery, which is an inconvenience to the people residing in the townlands around Cornglass manor; and will he direct that the boy messenger delivery which was given up to recently in this district be resumed forthwith?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe hon. Member has apparently been misinformed. In the district between Longford and Esker there is a delivery of letters each week-day, except in the thinly populated district round Carrickglass, where a delivery on four days a week is afforded. I P 15 am informed that no change has been made in the delivery arrangements in the district recently.
§ Mr. FARRELLThat is the very district about which the question is put. Does the information the right hon. Gentleman has got come from the office in which it was suggested that this four-day delivery was substituted for a weekly delivery?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe information comes from the surveyor of the district.
§ Mr. FARRELLAm I not right in saying it is from the local office in question that the right hon. Gentleman is getting his information?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELIt is a question about facts about which there can be no doubt, whether there is a weekly or a four-day delivery, and an officer of the Department cannot say there is a weekly delivery if there is not.
§ Mr. FARRELLDid he say there was a weekly delivery which has been changed to a four-day delivery? We want the four-day delivery returned to.