§ MR. SAMUEL SMITH (Flintshire)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether two young officers of the Sorting Department of the Post Office, named Dineen and Lovegrove, recently retired from the service rather than accept the newly-imposed conditions which render Sunday work compulsory on all the staff; and whether, in the conditions of service supplied to these young men by the Civil Service Commissioners, any mention was made of their liability to perform such work.
§ MR. HANBURYNo, Sir. One— Dineen—stated that he resigned because he had obtained a clerkship in the City. The other—Lovegrove—gave the reason stated in the question. Before taking up his appointment, however, he signed a declaration that he fully understood it to be his duty at all times to give such attendance both on week-days and on Sundays in any section of the Post Office as might be required by the Department.