§ MR. J. O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster 57 General, if provincial town and rural auxiliary postmen doing less than three hours' duty will be granted a similiar privilege to that conferred by the recent decision of the Comptroller of the London Postal Service in regard to such service on the part of London auxiliary postmen being allowed to count towards stripes?
§ MR. HANBURYProvincial town and rural auxiliary postmen doing less than three hours' duty a day, who were employed before April 1st, 1897, are allowed to count such service—two years for one—towards good conduct stripes in the same way as London auxiliary post-men. This concession, however, does not apply to men employed under allowances made to provide for the duty.