§ MR. SAMUEL ROBERTS (Sheffield, Ecclesall)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether his attention has been directed to a letter, dated 26th September 1901, from the telegraph staff at Sheffield, referring to the Secretary's paper No. 338,733/01, asking for a Return of the number of instances where the rest interval, as recommended by the Tweedmouth Commission, had been encroached upon between 1st June and 11th July 1901; and whether, in the light of that 1452 Return, which has now been obtained, the caution administered to certain officers will be erased from their records.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINThe letter in question was duly received, together with the Return asked for; but no sufficient reason was seen for erasing from the records the caution administered to certain officers who absented themselves from duty without first obtaining permission from the proper quarter.