HC Deb 03 February 1902 vol 102 c185
MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow W.)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, if any reply has yet been given to a petition handed in by the Brighton postmen, on 19th February 1901, with regard to the appointment of an assistant inspector of postmen.

MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN

The Memorialists deprecated the promotion of a Postman who had been strongly recommended by the Postmaster for promotion to be Assistant. Inspector of Postmen, and all their statements were carefully inquired into, before the promotion was made; but they were not considered such as ought to militate against the promotion. In these circumstances, the announcement of the Postmaster-General's decision to sanction the promotion was considered a sufficient reply to the representations of the Memorialists.