§ 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 CHAMBERLAINThe 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.