MR. M`GHEEI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether a number of telegraph learners attending the School of Telegraphy, Moorgate Street Buildings, have passed the usual course of instruction, and have been informed that no vacancies exist in the Central Telegraph Office; whether they receive no pay whilst at the school, but should receive 12s. per week on entering the Telegraph Office; and whether, as overtime is being performed at the Central Telegraph Office, the learners can be given appointments?
THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURYEleven Central Telegraph Office learners arid twenty London Postal Service learners have passed the usual course of instruction at the School of Telegraphy, and have been waiting for vacancies. They receive no pay for their attendance at the school, but the Central Telegraph Office learners are employed part time at the Central Telegraph Office to reduce the payment for overtime, and for this they receive 6s. a week. Six of the eleven Central Telegraph Office learners will be appointed during the present week, when their wages will be 12s. a week, and the remaining five who only qualified in March last, will no doubt be shortly provided for.