§ Mr. W. GRAHAMasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that, in connection with a recent vacancy in the assistant superintendents' class in the sorting office at the General Post Office, Edinburgh, a junior overseer was selected for promotion; and that this involved passing over the claims of three assistant superintendents, Class 11, and 27 officers senior to him in the overseers' class; and whether, in view of the manner in which this method of selection is resented by the staff, he will cause full inquiry to be made into the circumstances of this appointment?
§ Mr. PARKERI am asked to answer this question. The circumstances of the case are known. The officer promoted to the assistant superintendents' class was considered to be of outstanding ability and the best qualified for the successful performance of the higher duties. The case has already been fully considered or more than one occasion, and I cannot agree to re-open it.