To ask the Postmaster-General whether he will now arrange to have cloth and other materials for making up boots, waterproofs, etc., required for the Irish Post Office service, delivered free in Dublin, and there subjected to expert examination, in order to give the same facilities to Irish. manufacturers in Ireland as are now enjoyed by English manufacturers in England, and also to save the cost of carriage from London to Ireland which, under the present arrangement, the Post Office Vote has to bear.

The only materials now sent from Ireland to London and then returned to Ireland are certain linings of an average annual value of about £90.