§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether officers in the Post Office, transferring from one district in London to another, lose their seniority in the same way as when transferring from one town to another.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,) Worcestershire, E.A large portion of the officers of the London postal service are on combined establishments and do not lose their seniority on transfer from one district to another. In the case, however, of officers who are borne on separate seniority lists and have not been placed on amalgamated establishments, they are required, when transferred for their own convenience from one district to another, to take their place below the officers on the class to which transferred who were appointed before the amalgamation. Officers attached to the eastern central district are on classes distinct from those in the other Metropolitan districts for promotion purposes, except as regards the counter and telegraph officers appointed since 1889, and would lose seniority if transferred to a Metropolitan district.