§ MR. P. C. DOOGAN (Tyrone, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether the recent regulation of awarding double increments to telegraphists holding qualifying technical certificates will be reconsidered, with a view either to make the scheme retrospective or to pay the bonus increment to all duly qualified officers from 1st of April last, being the date when the rule came into operation?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY,) Prestonthe Postmaster General is not prepared to make the scheme retrospective. In concert with myself, he is considering the whole case which certain Members of this House, on the part of the telegraphists and other branches of the Service have recently placed before us, and we hope to be able to arrive at a decision on the whole subject at as early a date as the great mass of representations submitted may render possible.