§ MR. HUNT (Shropshire, Ludlow)To ask the Postmaster-General whether the scheme of reorganising the clerical force in provincial superintending engineers' offices is yet complete; whether it embodies a proposal to employ permanently assistant clerks (abstractors) in those offices: and, if so, will he indicate the probable date on which this proposal is to take effect.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) A revision of the staff in provincial superintending engineers' offices is at present under consideration, and in the meantime I am, unable to furnish particulars of future arrangements or to say when they will come into operation.