§ Mr. SNOWDENasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant Stickney, who was discharged from the Army Ordnance Corps on 26th March, 1912, because he made a statutory declaration under the Vaccination Act, 1907, at Roberts' Heights, on 26th January, 1912, was recently recommended by the recruiting officer at Leeds for the vacancy of postman existing at Dewsbury, and, after waiting four weeks, the recommendation was returned, the applicant being declared physically unfit for the duties of postman; will the name of the Post Office medical officer who examined Stickney be stated, in view of the fact that Stickney states that he has never been examined by a Post Office medical officer, but has been examined by a civil medical practitioner, who has certified him to be medically fit on 4th April, 1912, and Stickney was actually engaged at the Richmond post office, Surrey, during Christmas week, 1912, as a temporary postman?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELMr. Stickney, who was discharged from the Army as medically unfit, was put forward for the vacancy referred to on 25th November last. In view of his Army medical history, of which particulars were furnished at the same time, the chief medical officer to the Post Office advised that he was physically unfit for an established post, and the military authorities were, informed accordingly on the 6th December. The temporary Christmas force are not subject to medical examination.