§ Viscount VALENTIAasked why postmen who have passed no Civil Service examination to qualify them for duty as sorting clerks and telegraphists are employed or have been at the general post office at Oxford on that duty, their own duty being in the meantime provided by casual labour?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELPostmen should be employed as substitutes for sorting clerks and telegraphists only in cases where the performance of overtime would result in undue pressure on the remaining sorting clerks and telegraphists. I fear that at Oxford there has been some misapprehension on this point, and steps are being taken to put the matter on a proper footing.