§ MR. JAMES O'CONNORI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if the decision recently announced by the Secretary to the Post Office to the effect that auxiliary postmen drawn from the civil population and employed in London should have thrown open to them the same percentage of established appointments as formerly, notwithstanding the new regulations as to the employment of discharged soldiers and sailors, is intended to apply also to provincial auxiliary, rural auxiliary, and assistant postmen at the present time in the service of the Post Office?
§ MR. HANBURYNo promise has been made to auxiliary postmen in London that they shall in the future have the same percentage of established appointments as in the past. In reply to a recent memorial, the London auxiliaries were informed that it is not admitted that auxiliary service gives claim to appointment, and that, although now and then in the past places had been found for auxiliaries, the number of these places was so very small that the introduction of the soldier rule had no practical effect in their case.