§ MR. SCHWANN (Manchester, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, when finally the postmen in the Manchester Post Office entitled to stripes, counting half time for junior service, of which the cases of J. G. Hill and A. Guard are typical, will be awarded: and whether, in several cases, the stripes are about twenty months in arrear; and, if so, what is the cause of the delay.
§ MR. HANBURYThe outstanding awards will be made in a few days. The decision given in March last that service as junior postman should count only as half time towards stripes affected a considerable number of postmen. Some delay necessarily occurred in consequence of the opposition to this decision.