§ MR. GRAYasked the Postmaster General, Whether the appointments of sorting clerk and female telegraph learner in the General Post Office, Dublin, are open to competition; and, whether similar appointments in the General Post Office, London, are open to competition?
§ MR. FAWCETTAdmission to the situation of female telegraph learner in London is by means of open competition. Admission to the situation of sorter in London will, when certain claims have been disposed of, be thrown open to competition, with the restriction that every fourth vacancy shall be reserved for a competition amongst the London postmen. Exactly the same rules have been laid down mutatis mutandis for Dublin. An open competition has already been held for sorters; and the next vacancies which occur in the class of female telegraph learner in Dublin will be recruited by open competition.