§ MR. JOYCE (Limerick)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether 1366 he is aware that an officer of the clerks' class at Limerick post office has been performing superintending duties efficiently for the last seven years, while the imported officers were employed as writing clerks in the Postmaster's Inquiry Department; and will he say whether the senior clerk in the telegraph branch or an officer of lower rank was locally eligible for the appointment.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINAs the hon. Member is aware, a personal inquiry is now being made respecting the duties of the indoor staff at Limerick. The Postmaster General will see that the subject of the present Question is specially investigated and the result embodied in his reply upon the whole case.