§ MR. BELL (Derby)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, in carrying out the promise given in answer to representations made by the London sorters in January 1901, that examiners of sorting should in future be of a higher grade than the sorters, all 365 the sorters performing this duty will be withdrawn; and whether, in filling up the vacancies of two overseers on this class in the Inland Letter Section. Mount Pleasant, the senior officers on the acting overseers list willing to undertake the duties will be appointed, and not the junior officers who have been performing the duties of examiners of sorting, as in all cases these officers are over 800 down the sorters' list for promotion.
(Answer.) All the sorters performing the duty in question have been withdrawn, and all the vacancies on the overseers' class have already been filled.—(Post Office.)