§ MR. W. FIELD (, St. Patrick) DublinI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he can arrange in competitive examinations for sorterships in the London Post Office that Dublin and Edinburgh should be made centres for examination; and, whether it is the usage in all other Civil Service examinations that Dublin and Edinburgh are made centres?
§ * MR. HANBURYThe arrangements as to centres for examination in case of open competitions rest with the Civil Service Commissioners, and it is understood to be the practice of the Commissioners to make Dublin and Edinburgh centres on all occasions when there are 1260 enough candidates at those places to justify the expense. There seems no reason for exceptional arrangements in the case of open competitions for sorter-ships.