§ MR. SCHWANN (Manchester, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, pending the general decision promised as to the memorial presented to the Postmaster General by various employées of the Manchester Post Office with reference to the stripes of men who were juniors and have claimed full service and corresponding stripes still undistributed, he will consent to issue the stripes claimed in accordance with the Tweedmouth Committee Report (i.e., junior service counted as half time), in the following cases: A. Hill, who has ten years and three months full appointment, and three years and four months junior, including unestablished, or two years and ten months appointed junior service, possessing now only one stripe, which he received in January, 1892, his appointed junior service having been counted as full time; and in the case of A. Gerard, who has fifteen years and three months full appointment, and three years and three months junior, including four months unestablished, possessing now two stripes, the last of which he received eight years ago, his junior service being then counted as full time.
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HANBURY,) PrestonThe Tweedmouth Committee decided that service as junior postman can only be reckoned as half time towards good conduct stripes, and it has been decided by the Postmaster General that the case of the postmen at Manchester shall be dealt with accordingly.