§ Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCKasked the Postmaster-General whether Miss Mentasti, a Post Office employé who 75W has satisfactorily passed through her period of probation, has been informed that, owing to the nationality of her father, an Italian, who has been dead three years, her services would not be retained; and on what grounds such action has been taken in the case of a girl of Allied nationality whose brother is serving in the British Army, and who is herself the sole support of her widowed mother?
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§ Mr. ILLINGWORTHUnder General Regulations issued by the Government, no person can be appointed to the Civil-Service who is not a natural-born British subject and whose father was not a natural-born British subject. Miss Mentasti's father was an Italian, and the Civil Service Commissioners are, therefore, unable to issue a certificate of qualification in her favour.