§ Major ARCHER-SHEEasked the President of the Board of Trade whether 1890W second division clerks in the office of the Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen are still engaged on duties for the performance of which other second division clerks were promoted to minor staff clerkships in 1908 and since then to staff clerkships; if he can state why promotions made in 1908 were only personal to the clerks upon whom they were conferred; and why there is now no grade in the office between second division clerks and staff clerks?
Mr. BUXTONThe circumstances existing in 1908 at the time of the creation of the minor staff clerkships are no longer present in the office of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. The minor staff clerkships ceased on the promotion of the officers, who formerly held them, to staff posts, where their experience is still available. The reason for an intermediate grade does not exist.