§ MR. CLYNES (Manchester, N.E.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that a telegraphist at Manchester has recently been made an overseer, being promoted over the heads of a number of his fellows; will he say whether the surveyor at Manchester has carried out the recommendation in Paragraph 96 of the Hobhouse Report, that in every case of complaint as to promotion the surveyor shall be required to certify that he has interviewed all the officers affected; and, if not, whether he will state why men with good official 711 records have been passed over by a junior without being informed in anyway of the reasons for such action.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) I have received a memorial from an officer complaining of being passed over on the occasion in question, and his appeal is under consideration.