§ Mr. SLOANasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that it is the practice in the Belfast office to record against an officer any appeals he may have made against his superiors; and whether he will consider the advisability of giving to all officers unfettered freedom of appeal without incurring the risk of an unfavourable record for so doing?
§ Mr. BUXTONAppeals made against the decisions of superior officers are usually noted in a man's record; but the entries are made simply as a note of the fact that the officer concerned did not admit the justice of the punishment, and no unfavourable conclusions of any kind are based on them. I have no reason to suppose that the knowledge that such entries will be made has in any way acted as a check upon the freedom of appeal.