§ Sir B. JannerI beg to ask leave to present a Petition on behalf of my constituents in the section of my constituency known as Mowmacre Hill. My constituents in that area are very seriously disturbed at the lack of proper services by way of post offices in that district. They have for a very considerable time endeavoured without success to impress upon the Minister how essential it is that the aged persons in that district should have adequate post office facilities instead of having to travel up and down very hilly ground to obtain their pensions.
There are, of course, a large number, too, of younger people who have to take their children with them in order to visit post offices at too long distances—unreasonably long and hilly distances—as otherwise they would be prevented from obtaining the payments that have to be made to them.
In the circumstances, they feel terribly perturbed about the whole matter, and they ask that the humble Petition of these citizens should be presented. The Petition says that considerable hardship is caused to the residents on the Mowmacre Estate, and especially to the aged, by the lack of sufficient postal facilities and particularly by the inconvenient siting of the nearest post office at the bottom of the steep hill.
Wherefore your Petitioners pray that provision may be made for the establishment of an additional sub-post office on the Mowmacre Estate.And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, etc.
§ To lie upon the Table.