§ LORD R. CECIL (Marylebone, E.)To ask the Postmaster General if be will state when the scheme for placing the male clerical staff of the general manager of the Post Office (London) telephone service on the establishment will come into force; whether the positions to be created will carry pay and conditions of service equal with those given for similar work in the other branches of the Post Office; and whether the appointments will be given to the unestablished men who have hitherto carried out the work.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) As the noble Lord is, I think, aware, the question is still before the Treasury. I am not, therefore, in a position at present to make any announcement on the subject.