§ MR. J. BIGWOOD (Middlesex, Brentford)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Abstractors employed in the Statistical Office of Her Majesty's Customs in London have any promotion open to them?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir JOHN HIBBERT,) OldhamThe position of the abstractors now in the Customs Service is in itself promotion from a lower grade. It is open to the head of a Department to submit the name of any abstractor who has shown very exceptional knowledge and ability for appointment in the Second Division.