§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the. Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he can state the number of telegraphists stationed in London who are in receipt of the salary of £160 perannum, with the average years of service of the men so placed; and whether the number of promotions from the £160 point to the next class of operating telegraphists, the class recently termed overseers, during the year 1901, can be given.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINThe number of Telegraphists at the Central Telegraph Office in receipt of a salary of £160 a year is 336, with an average service of twenty-two years. The 181 number of promotions to the class of overseers and senior telegraphists during the year 1901 was nineteen.