§ SIR JAMES FERGUSSONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether the Postmaster-General will grant to Army and Navy Reserve men employed in the postal service, whether provisionally or permanently, the privilege of wearing good conduct badges acquired in their former service, with corresponding advantages of pay and pension; and, if he will state why Reserve men in the postal service, and possessed of such good conduct badges, are not permitted to wear them?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. WYNDHAM,) DoverThe Postmaster-General has no objection to allowing these men the privilege of wearing their badges, but is not prepared to grant any increase of pay.
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONIs it not the case that postmen who have served in other civil departments have their previous service recognised?
§ MR. WYNDHAMAs my right honourable and gallant Friend knows, Army reservists draw no good conduct pay, and have no uniform; they are only supplied with a badge.