§ MR. WHITEHEAD (Essex, S.E.)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been drawn to the dismissal at Grays post office of three telegraph boys for accepting Christmas boxes: whether he is aware that they deny having solicited these gifts or otherwise broken the regulations and whether he can see his way to reinstate them in the service.
§ The POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. Sydney Buxton, Tower Hamlets, Poplar)These boys were dismissed for collecting Christmas boxes. They admitted that they solicited these gifts, and that they knew that they were breaking a rule of the service, and rendering themselves liable to dismissal.