SIR FREDERICK DIXON-HART-LAND (Middlesex, Uxbridge)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether several Civil Service writers over 50 years of age, who had no previous Naval or Military service, have been recently promoted to the class of abstractors; and, if so, whether the same privilege can be accorded to other writers over 50 years and of long service, especially to those who, in addition, have rendered good service as temporary clerks, and have been recommended to such promotion by Heads of Departments?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) OldhamI cannot find that more than three copyists, with no previous Naval or Military service, have been appointed abstractors after the age of 50. One of these copyists was not over 50 when the Treasury approved his presentation to the Civil Service Commissioners for a certificate, and the other two were passed by inadvertence. In these circumstances, there is no ground for altering what is, in my judgment, a sound rule.