MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he can state what decision, if any, has been arrived at respecting the request embodied in the memorial forwarded by a section of the Dublin sorting staff on 8th May, 1897, with reference to the delay in their appointments?
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURYIt is not quite certain to what request from the Dublin staff the hon. Member refers. No memorial of the 8th May can be traced, but there was one which was received on the 18th from certain sorting clerks, who were appointed in 1893 after some delay in connection with their Civil Service Examinations. If his Question relates to these officers I am glad to inform the hon. Member that authority has been given for the ante-dating of their appointments.