§ MR. CLAUDE HAYI beg to ask the Postmaster-General when it was decided that the postmen in the Rhymney Valley were to be placed in the fifth class; and whether some of these men have already signed the official papers by which they have accepted service in the fifth class.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. SYDNEY BUXTON,) Tower Hamlets, PoplarAs I informed the hon. Member on the 30th ult. it has not as yet been possible definitely to decide into which classes the sub-offices in the Rhymney Valley should be placed. They were placed provisionally in Class V. in the announcement made to the Staff in the Post Office Circular of the 14th February, 1908. At the same time the staff were informed that the arrangement was provisional.