§ MR. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green)To ask the Postmaster General whether he is aware that during the carrying out of the Tweedmouth Committee recommendations in 1897 the Department arrested the registered letter-risk allowances from a number of officers 1061 attached to the travelling post offices in Ireland, and that the officers concerned have, after repeatedly petitioning, establish their claim to those allowances: and, having regard to the fact that authority was granted aliont eighteen months ago for their restoration, will he will explain the cause of delay in paying the arrears due since arrestment.
(Answerd by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) I am not aware that any of the officers referred to, whose claims to allowances have been established, have not received payment of arrears due to them: but I will have inquiry made into the matter, and acquaint the hon. Member with the result.