HC Deb 18 December 1902 vol 116 cc1616-7
MR., JAMES O'CONNOR () Wicklow, W.

To ask the Postmaster General whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that a member of the personal staff of the Controller, Central Telegraph Office, has been promoted to the superintending staff of the Instrument Gallery by reason of his superior abilities; and whether, seeing that for twenty-eight years he has had no experience of this work, and that an officer who was passed over has been asked to instruct this officer in the duties pertaining to the post of superintendent, he will state why a man qualified to instruct his superior was not held to be qualified for the vacant post.

(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) I have nothing to add to the answer which I gave to the hon. Member on the 3rd instant.