§ MR. STEADMAN (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Post-master-General, whether, considering that it is the declared policy of the Post Office not to discourage organisations among its officials at the Post Office, he will permit the various associations to exhibit their rules on the notice boards in the coat or retiring rooms of the staff to which they are relative; whether he is aware that at the present time a notice of a permanent nature is being exhibited on one of the coat room notice boards at Glasgow; and whether he will state why the rule recently quoted is not being adhered to?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. C. T. RITCHIE.) CroydonMy right honourable Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury has asked 34 me to answer for him. No, Sir. The rules of associations are of a permanent nature, and there can be no difficulty in distributing them to the members. They are not, therefore, regarded as suitable for exhibition on the notice boards. The notice at Glasgow, mentioned by the honourable Member, gives particulars of a library in the Post Office which is open to the staff. It is quite unnecessary, as it relates to permanent advantages whch are well known to all concerned, and instructions have been given that it is to be removed.