Sir LEICESTER HARMSWORTHasked the Postmaster-General if he will state the reasons which have caused him to deprive the township of Skerray, Sutherlandshire, of its daily post, a privilege which it has enjoyed for forty years and which was taken away during the War on the score of economy; whether he is aware that this small community sent over 100 men to the War; and whether he will for this and for other reasons restore this elementary privilege?
§ Mr. ILLINGWORTHThe frequency of the mail service to Skerray was reduced to four days a week in 1916 because the contract was given up and no one could be found to maintain a service on six days a week. In 1917 the contract again fell vacant, and the frequency was reduced to three days a week in order to avoid excessive increase of cost. I am inquiring whether it is possible to restore the pre-war frequency at a cost not wholly out of proportion to the number of postal packets conveyed by the mail van.