§ MR. HUGH LAW (Donegal, W.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether any of the successful candidates at the London sorters' examination, held in October, 1904, have yet been called up for duty; and, if so, when the remainder will be called on to take up work.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) Out of the whole number of eighty candidates declared successful at the examination for sorterships in London, which was held in October, 1904, twenty-six have been appointed or are about to be appointed, and seven have declined appointment. The appointment of the rest has been retarded by an unforeseen dearth, of vacancies, but there is reason to hope that it may not be very long delayed.