MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, seeing that the 4th of April, proclaimed a Bank holiday throughout the county and city of Dublin by the Privy Council, in honour of Her Majesty's visit to Ireland, was not observed as such in the sorting and other departments of the General Post Office in Dublin, whether it is the intention of the authorities to give sorting clerks and telegraphists and other Dublin Post office employees a day in lieu or payment at Bank holiday rates.
§ MR. ANSTRUTHER (for Mr. HANBURY)The day was observed as a Bank holiday in the Dublin Post Office, and as many of the staff as the exigencies of the service would admit of were granted a holiday, and a day's leave in lieu of the Bank holiday will be granted to those who were obliged to be on duty. It is not possible to close the post office entirely on a Bank holiday.