§ 36. Mr. J. H. HUDSONasked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that at the General Post Office at Huddersfield there has been no promotion to a postmastership for 40 years; whether there is any similar case in other large post offices; and whether he can account for the apparent differentiation against Huddersfield?
§ Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSONThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative: to the second part that applications for postmasterships are considered on their individual merits and not with the object of equalising the number of appointments given to different offices: and to the 2804 third part, that I find that during the last two years only three Huddersfield officers have been making applications for Postmasterships. The majority of their applications were for posts carrying salaries considerably in excess of their present salaries, and they were therefore competing with candidates of longer service and superior all-round qualifications.