§ MR. T. F. RICHARDS (Wolverhampton, W.)To ask the Postmaster-General if he can now state whether an ex-superintendent at the Taunton Post Office, who was invalided out of the service about two years ago on a pension 2353 of about £100 a year, is at present in employment at the same office, for which he is also receiving wages; whether he has been in this employment for the past few months.; and, if so, whether he will give instructions that persons wholly unemployed shall have preference for employment when the pension is of similar proportion to the above.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) I find the facts are substantially as stated. For special reasons this officer was employed; but at Taunton, as elsewhere, I shall continue to employ by preference persons wholly unemployed on all classes of work which can reasonably be entrusted to them.