§ MR. SCHWANN (Manchester, N.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the arrangements made in the telegraph department providing that if the staff work on bank holidays they receive a day in the winter as compensation, and of the rule that if an officer falls sick and cannot perform duty on the dates selected in the winter as his compensation days for bank holiday he loses the holiday, he will state if he has had the circumstances attending the bank holiday periods of Mr. Alexander, telegraphist, of Manchester, laid before him; and, if so, whether the local decision in his case was in accordance with the usual regulations.
§ (Answered by Lord Stanley.) Mr. Alexander appealed to me in March, 1904, and I personally considered the matter. I am not prepared to reconsider my decision, which was in accordance with the general rule applied in the case of an officer who falls sick when on leave.