Com-
the limits laid down by the Re- trenchment Committee. The officers will be selected by petitive examination, and their appointments will be probation_ ary and subject to Your Lordship's
which appli. confirmation for which
cation will be made in due
course.
3.
Whilst on the subject of the numerical strength of the staff of the Post Office I would beg leave here to refer to the recommendation of the Retrench
ment
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ment Committee contained in
the latter part of paragraph 30 of their report. The arrangement therein suggested
is
one on ~
which, in the absence of the Postmaster Genera", I have not ventured to comment, but I
din now in a
position to state that Mr. Travers strongly depre- eates the employment of soldiers for the purpose of sorting and despatching mails : he points out that pressure of work so for from being unusual is a
matter