§ MR. JAMES O'CONNORI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, in view of the recommendation of the inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments to the effect that those provincial officers, not below the age of twenty-four, who have proved themselves qualified and ready to serve on both the postal and telegraph sides of the Department should be granted a double increment in lieu of the next ordinary single increment, will he explain why sorting clerks and telegraphists who have been transferred from offices scheduled B, C, D, and E, to offices scheduled A are not being permitted to obtain the additional increment.
§ MR. HANBURYThe reason is that sorting clerks and telegraphists at B, C, D, and E Offices were required to possess the dual qualification as a condition of their appointment.