§ MR. CLAUDE HAYTo ask the Postmaster-General whether he will state the number of telegraph clerks in the Central Telegraph Office, London, who are in receipt of £160 per annum; whether he will state the years of service of the senior and junior telegraphists at this point, with the number of men who were transferred from the £160 scale to the £190 scale during the past twelve months.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.)
Three hundred and sixty-seven telegraphists in the Central Telegraph Office are in receipt of £160 per annum. Of this number twenty-nine have been passed over as ineligible for promotion to the class above. The senior of these has had thirty-three years service. The service of the senior telegraphist eligible for promotion is twenty-six years, and of the junior in receipt of £160, 20 years. Twenty-nine men have been promoted to the class of overseers and senior telegraphists during the year ended 17th June.