§ MR. STEADMAN (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, in view of the fact that the Treasury, has agreed that in the Customs an abstractor holding a personal allowance of £30 shall be permitted to count it as salary upon promotion to the second division, there is any reason why an abstractor holding a personal allowance in the Board of Trade is not permitted to count his allowance as salary upon promotion to the second division.
§ MR. HANBURYIf the hon. Member will kindly furnish me with the
* See The Parliamentary Debates [Fourth Series], Vol. lxxxiii., pages 416 and 1113.1343 particulars of the cases to which he refers, I will cause inquiry to be made.