§ MR. SCHWANNTo ask the Postmaster General, whether he is now in a position to state the decision of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the working of the scheme whereby sorters and telegraphists are compelled to work in both branches of the service; and whether he can state if the chief telegraph superintendents throughout the country expressed the opinion that this scheme was the chief cause of the admitted inefficiency of the telegraph service.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) The subject is still under consideration. No such opinion as is suggested in the latter part of the Question was expressed by the chief telegraph superintendents.