§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he can say when the Eastern Central District countermen and telegraphists may expect a reply to the 484 questions raised by them at an interview with the Postmaster General in July, 1897?
§ MR. HANBURYThe interview referred to by the hon. Member was anterior to the Conference which the Postmaster General and I held in this House in August last, and at which many Members assisted. The conclusions arrived at as the result of that Conference, were embodied in a Minute dated the 10th August, and this constituted the reply to the representations made by the countermen and telegraphists of the E. C. District to the Postmaster General in July. All the points brought forward by the officers have been thoroughly examined, and the Postmaster General has no further observation to make.