§ Mr. WILKIEasked (1) if the Board of Customs and Excise have received a memorial from the assistants of Customs at the port of Dundee drawing the Board's attention to the permanent employment of these assistants on duties pertaining to the grade above the; when such memorial was received; whether the Board have yet acknowledged or answered it; (2) in view of the fact that assistants of Customs at the port of Dundee are employed in four different warehouses with separate accounts kept at each, whether he considers that the recent substitution of one examining officer for one assistant adequately relieves the remaining five assistants of the responsibility of performing examining officers' duties, seeing that the examining officer so appointed is wholly employed in only one of the four warehouses; (3) if it has been found possible since the appointment of an additional examining officer at the port of Dundee to relieve any of the assistants of the responsibility of performing examining officers' duties; and, if so, in which warehouse, and to what extent?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe memorial was received on 16th ultimo. As I informed the hon. Member on 11th inst. an additional examining officer has been appointed for the express purpose of relieving the assistants of the responsibilities to which they called attention, and the collector has been directed to rearrange the work accordingly.