§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the local secretary of the Postmen's Federation at Faversham, Kent, has been cautioned because of his conduct in forwarding a petition regarding a matter in which he was not directly concerned; and
§ Agricultural Rates (Scotland) Act, and the Tithe Rent Charge Act, and Local Government (Ireland) Act, respectively, for every year since the Acts were passed authorising such payment.
§ (Answered by Mr. Victor Cavendish.)
§ whether such caution received his sanction, seeing that the application was forwarded in pursuance of his duty as representing his members, and by their instruction.
§ (Answered by Lord Stanley.) Yes, the caution was given under my directions The postman in question, as a town postman, was not concerned in the matter which formed the subject of the petitions from individual rural postmen, who were perfectly at liberty to present their petitions themselves.