§ MR. J. F. X. O'BRIENI beg to ask the Postmaster-General if he will explain 207 why the recommendations of the Tweed-mouth Committee respecting the restriction of the annual leave to the better months of the year (from March to October, inclusive) were not observed at Cork, when ten or twelve officers were compelled to go on leave during the month of February, and where many other officers are detailed for leave in November; why the officers despatched on leave in February were not permitted to choose a space in the annual leave sheet, a privilege which all other appointed officers enjoy; and why those officers were ushered on leave without the notice customary on such occasions.
LORD STANLEYI will make inquiry as to the circumstances referred to in the hon. Member's Question and will communicate the result to him.