MR. MACDONALD CAMERONasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether it is intended that the seven hours' scheme shall be applied to the Upper Division section of clerks in the Statistical Department of Her Majesty's Customs, or whether the forthcoming reorganization, and consequent reduction of the staff, will affect the Lower Division only; and, if so, whether he will give instructions that the three Upper Division vacancies in that Department 731 be at once allotted to the redundant clerks, who are entitled to them by a specific arrangement sanctioned by Treasury Minute of 12th May, 1880?
§ MR. JACKSONThe application of the seven hours' system to the Upper Division of the Statistical Department is suspended for the present. There is only one vacancy at present to which the redundant clerks can claim to be promoted, and I must await further information before deciding what is to be done about it.
MR. MACDONALD CAMERONI wish to know if it is true that the Board of Customs are making arrangements to fix the time for the higher officers in that establishment at 11 o'clock instead of 10?
§ MR. JACKSONI am not aware of that.