§ MR. SLOAN (Belfast, S.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether a circular has been issued to surveyors instructing them to reduce the positions of overseers in the telegraph department, and suggesing that the Secretary of the Post Office is prepared to abolish all such appointments created by the Stanley revision; and if the circular has been published with his knowledge and sanction.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) No such circular has been issued.