§ MR. BROADHURST (Leicester)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether he can state the date from which the service of those telephonists who were transferred from the National Telephone Company to the Post Office is counted for the purpose of bonus, pension, or marriage gratuity.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Lord STANLEY,) Lancashire, WesthoughtonThe service of telephonists transferred from the National Telephone Company to the Post Office is reckoned for the benefits of the Superannuation Acts from the date of their transfer to the Post Office, provided that their Post Office service fulfils the conditions prescribed by those Acts. As regards marriage gratuities, telephonists come under the general rule that an officer must have served in the Civil Service in some capacity for six 732 years altogether, but the gratuity is calculated on her established service only. The unestablished Post Office service of these telephonists is reckoned towards the qualifying period of six years.