§ Mr. BUTLER LLOYDasked the Postmaster-General on whose report his decision that there was no officer at Shrewsbury fully qualified to perform the duties was based, seeing that they had satisfactorily performed the duties for some months and also the still higher duties, including that of the postmaster; and if he is prepared to withdraw the assertion that no Shrewsbury officer was fully qualified to perform the duties for which the vacancy existed, inasmuch as advantage may be taken of the adverse report to disqualify Shrewsbury officers from further advancement in the future?
§ Mr. PEASEThe decision was based on reports from responsible officers fully conversant with all the circumstances. I am not prepared to withdraw the statements made.
§ Mr. LLOYDasked the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the outsider who has been appointed to the superintendent ship at Shrewsbury having less service and being younger, with one exception, than the whole of the surpervising classes, both postal and telegraph, at Shrewsbury, he considered the dissatisfaction such an appointment would arouse?