§ Sir WILLIAM COLLINSasked the Postmaster-General what is the practice of the Post Office in inviting nominations from universities for certain posts in the engineering department, and why is it that he or his predecessor has refused to receive nominations from the University of London of external students while accepting nominations of internal students?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe practice alluded to is to reserve one vacancy out of every four occurring on the second class of engineers in the Post Office for competition among young men of general as well as technical education. Men from the universities, especially "internal" students, are considered most likely to fulfil this condition.