§ MR. DALZIELI beg to ask the Postmaster General if he will explain why the decision of his Department, with regard to the Petition received on 12th April last from the Senior Telegraphists employed at the Central Telegraph Office setting forth certain alleged grievances, has not yet been made known?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. A. MORLEY, Nottingham, E.)The Petition referred to repeated a number of points on which decisions had been previously conveyed to the petitioners, 1246 and I fear that with the exception of an addition to the number of the class of Assistant Superintendents, which, I am glad to say, has now been sanctioned by the Treasury, I am not in a position to accede to the prayer of the Petition. The answer has been delayed pending the decision of the Treasury on the point mentioned.