§ MR. SEDDON (Lancashire, Newton)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that at the Bristol office junior members of the staff, employed during the greater part of the year in the sorting office, have had their increments arrested for failing to pass the efficiency test required of a telegraphist regarding punching Wheatstone slip, although not yet at the efficiency bar; whether members of the staff who passed the efficiency test for their last increment have been compelled to undergo examination again before receiving their readjustment of wages under the Hobhouse scheme; and whether he can state the reason for this action at Bristol, seeing it has been taken in no other office in the country.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) I have received communications on both these subjects from the Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association.