§ MR. JAMES O'CONNORTo ask the Postmaster-General if he will explain why the privileges granted at the Norfolk-Hanbury interview in 1897 to auxiliaries doing rather less than five hours' work, but receiving the pay of men actually performing five hours a day, are only granted to London men, seeing that no distinction is made in the recommendation between London and the provinces.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) The case put before the Duke of Norfolk and Mr. Hanbury in 1897 was that of certain men employed in London, and the concession made applied only to those men. The concession was not to apply to future entrants, nor to auxiliaries outside London.