§ MR. CREAN (Cork, S.E.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if he will state the respective number of Protestants and Roman Catholics employed in the different surveyor staffs of the Post Office in Ireland, according to their districts, and what is the system for filling such positions.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINThe Postmaster General has no knowledge as to the religious beliefs of members of the Post Office surveying staff or other servants of the Department. The surveying staff is recruited either by the selection of persons already in the service of the Department who have shown the requisite qualifications, or by the appointment through open competition of candidates from outside the service.