§ MR. M'GHEE (Louth, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether the local secretary of the Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association at Belfast requested permission to exhibit a copy of the agenda paper of the forthcoming conference of that association in the male telegraphists' dining room; will he explain why, though a fortnight has elapsed since the application was made, no answer has been returned, neither has the copy of the paper; and whether, seeing that Government employees are said to enjoy all the rights of combination applicable to trade unions, he will state 1060 whether any reason exists for withholding permission for the exhibition of this paper seeing that nothing objectionable is contained therein?
§ MR. HANBURYThe application referred to by the honourable Member was received at the General Post Office on the 25th ultimo. Some time was spent in making inquiry into the practice in similar cases in other Post Offices. The application has now been complied with.