§ Mr. ELLIS GRIFFITHasked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that the sub-postmaster of a neighbouring village is now being employed as a season assistant at the Holyhead office; whether, as the particular sub-office is seven miles distant from the Holyhead office, the sub-postmaster can be expected to perform satisfactorily the duties required of him at both places, and on what grounds it has been deemed necessary to depart from the usual procedure of advertising the vacancy in the Post Office Circular?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe arrangement referred to is a convenient one, and was made with my approval. Sub-postmasters paid on the scale system are not required to perform the whole of their duties personally, and I am assured that in the case in question suitable arrangements have been made to carry on the work of the sub-office. It was unnecessary to advertise for a season assistant when a satisfactory officer was at hand.