§ Mr. CAIRNSasked the Prime Minister whether he wil lay upon the Table of the 250W House the whole of the correspondence between the Treasury and the Post Office which led up to the exclusion of the men. of the special sections from the wad gratuity?
§ Mr. BALDWINThere is no such correspondence, but if there were I could not undertake to lay it. Inter-departmental correspondence of this character must be treated as confidential, and the decisions. are decisions of His Majesty's Government.