§ MR. JAMES O'CONNORI beg to ask the Postmaster-General if Dr. John Bolster, ex-medical officer of the Tinahely, county Wicklow, district, has been appointed medical attendant to the officials at the Post Office, Tinahely; whether he is aware that Dr. Bolster was charged with gross neglect of duty by the board of guardians; that two official inquiries were held by a Local Government Board inspector into the charges made by the guardians; that, as the result of these inquiries, Dr. Bolster resigned his position as medical officer of the Tinahely district; that Dr. Bolster was dismissed by the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway from his position as medical attendant upon the employees of that company; and whether he has sanctioned, or intends to sanction, the appointment of Dr. Bolster as medical officer of the Tinahely Post Office employees.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. SYDNEY BUXTON,) Tower Hamlets, PoplarDr. John Bolster, medical officer to the Post Office Officials at Tinahely, was appointed early in the year. I had then no knowledge of the circumstances referred to by the hon. Member; but I am inquiring into the matter.
§ MR. JAMES O'CONNORWill the right hon. Gentleman address his inquiries to the Board of Guardians in whose employment this doctor was for some years?
§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTONNaturally they are the people of whom to inquire.