§ Mr. SWANasked the Postmaster-General whether Mr. H. C. Brookbank, late counter clerk and telegraphist, London postal service, entered the Post Office service as a postman at Ealing in 1879; whether he passed a Civil Service exami- 1406W nation in 1881; whether he served as head postal clerk at Ealing from 1884 until 1889 and then became a counter clerk and telegraphist in the North-Western district; whether his service from 1879 is unbroken; and whether, in these circumstances, the whole period 1879 to 1919 will be counted for pensionable service?
§ Mr. PEASEMr. Brookbank was appointed a postman on the 7th March, 1881. In 1884 he resigned his established post in order to take up employment as an assistant to the postmaster of Ealing. In. 1889 he was reappointed to the establishment as a telegraphist, obtaining a fresh Civil Service certificate. The decision as to what portion of this service can be admitted for pension rests with the Treasury, and I am representing the facts to that Department.