§ MR. STEADMANI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he is aware that Post Office employees who are members of volunteer corps and attend various military camps for training, do so at a loss of wages, while War Office employees are given leave of absence without any such loss; and whether the Postmaster General will see that Post Office Volunteers are not treated less generously in this respect than those employed in another branch of the Civil Service?
§ MR. HANBURYPost Office servants who are Volunteers do not always incur loss of wages by attending camps of instruction, as a considerable number take a portion of their annual leave for the purpose, when it can be so arranged, but others, it is true, have to pay for substitutes, and the Postmaster General regrets that he has not the power to allow all to attend free of expense. The Postmaster General has no knowledge of the practice which is pursued in the War Office.