§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he is aware that the abolition of what is known in the General Post Office as split attendances was recommended by the Tweedmouth Committee; whether, seeing that these split attendances continue in spite of assurances given in the House by the representatives of the Postmaster General that all the recommendations of the Tweedmouth Committee had been carried out, he can now undertake to immediately abolish them.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,) Worcestershire, EThe recommendation of the Tweedmouth Committee was that split attendances should be abolished where practicable, and this recommendation has been carefully carried out, although at considerable expense. The split attendances of the sorting staff in London have already been reduced to a very small number, and it is hoped that in course of time it may be found possible to discontinue all those that remain.