§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if he will re-consider the case of Postman Walter Coulson, of Malton, who in January 1899, was fined a day's pay for having solicited a Christmas box, and who is now being further penalised in the sum of £7 16s. for the same offence by having a good conduct stripe, which became due in March, 1901, deferred until January, 1904,
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,) Worcestershire, E.The Postmaster General regrets that in view of the offence committed by Coulson in 1899, it was not possible to award him a good conduct stripe in March last. But if his conduct continues good, his case will be re-considered before 1904.