§ MR. M'GHEEI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he is aware that a telegraphist at the Liverpool Post Office, number 34 on the seniority list, has been promoted recently to the class of clerks; whether the men who were passed over received any 234 notice of the impending promotion; and can he state the reasons for their non-advancement, and for what special circumstances the junior officer was selected.
§ MR. HANBURYA sorting clerk and telegraphist, standing number 34 of his class at Liverpool, has lately been promoted to fill a vacant clerkship. The officers who were passed over did not receive notice that the promotion was under consideration. It is not the practice to issue any such notice, nor is it necessary to take such a course in order to ensure that the claims of all the men concerned receive proper consideration. The officer promoted was selected for the vacant post because he was held by the Postmaster General, after careful inquiry, to be the best qualified to perform the duties to be taken up.