§ Mr. MacVEAGHasked the character of the alterations proposed in the matter of postal administration in Ireland; whether 1525 effect will be given to the recommendation of the Hobhouse Committee that the administrative machinery should be decentralised, and that the powers of decision and general scope of responsibility for the secretaries in Ireland and Scotland should be widened; and, if not, on what grounds this recommendation is to be ignored?
Mr. SAMUELA scheme of decentralisation will come into force on 1st April under which, in accordance with the recommendations of the Select Committee on Post Office Servants, the powers of decision of the secretaries in Ireland and Scotland, and of the surveyors and the postmasters of the larger offices will be substantially enlarged.