§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAM (Cork Co., N.E.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if he can explain the cause of delay in the appointment of a medical officer to the post office at Fermoy, for which candidates were invited to make formal applications in June, 1900; and when will the appointment of such medical officer be made.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINThe delay is owing to the fact that no suitable candidate has applied for the appointment. It is hoped that a suitable candidate may soon be obtained.
§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAMIs it not the fact that several local medical gentlemen have applied for this position on the terms of the requisition sent to them? How then can it be said that there are no suitable candidates?
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINI have no information beyond that supplied to me by the Postmaster General.