§ MR. DILLONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, will he explain the circumstances under which Mr. Michael Voyse, of Waterford, after 12 months' training in London, was dismissed on the ground that he failed to pass the medical examination; and whether he can have the circumstances of the ease inquired into with a view to reconsideration?
§ MR. HANBURYThe person referred to appears to be Henry Wyse, not Michael Voyse. He competed in the examination for sorter, London, in September 1894, and obtained his Civil Service certificate in November of the same year. After temporary employment in London as an acting sorter he was appointed a sorter on probation in July 1895. When, on the completion of the first period of his probation in the following January he was, in the usual course, medically examined, it was found that he was suffering from. phthisis, and was quite unfit for duty, and it was necessary to cancel his appointment. Applications for re-employment were made on behalf of Wyse, and it was arranged to give him some nominal appointment in the Waterford office, in the hope that his health might sufficiently improve to allow 407 of his appointment there. With this view he was medically examined from time to time, and the Medical Officer at Waterford ultimately reported that he was physically disqualified for an established appointment, and it became necessary to discontinue his services at the Waterford office. The circumstances of the case do not appear to justify any hope that the decision already arrived at can be altered.