Mr. POINTERasked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been directed to the postal arrangements in certain parts of Sheffield; whether he is aware that in the Darnall rural postal district the facilities are worse than obtained twenty years ago, and that by the first morning delivery residents receive their letters at times varying from 8.45 to 9.45 833W a.m., and that the last collection is at 8.45 p.m.; whether he can state why Darnall is continued as a rural district when less than a mile away there is a large district office in Attercliffe; whether the fact that the wages paid are 6s. per week less in Darnall than in Attercliffe is the main reason why Darnall is continued as a rural district; and whether he will arrange for a better and more serviceable system of collection and delivery immediately?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe postal facilities in the Darnall district have been considerably increased in the course of the past twenty years, the improvements including an additional delivery and dispatch on week-days and a Sunday delivery. The question of effecting further changes and some acceleration of the morning delivery is now engaging my attention.