[274] Report from the Select Committee on Post Office (Telegraph Department), 1876; q. 3,122 to 3,125.
[275] Correspondence Relating to the Post Office Telegraph Department: Letter of April 12, 1877, Postmaster General, Lord John Manners, to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.
[276] Report from the Select Committee on Post Office (Telegraph Department), 1876; q. 1,259.
[277] Report of the Bradford Committee on Post Office Wages, 1904; q. 1,024 and 1,048.
[278] Mr. Lowe, Chancellor of the Exchequer, divided the service into three classes, in such a way that it was difficult, if not impossible, to pass from one class to the other. That was done with the object of preventing individuals from bringing pressure on Members of Parliament for promotion from class to class.
[279] Compare also: Third Report from the Select Committee on Civil Services Expenditure, 1873; q. 3,703 to 3,705, Mr. T. H. Farrer, Permanent Secretary of the Board of Trade. “The salt of the service is the staff appointments…. Since I have been in the Board of Trade there have been almost forty higher staff appointments, and on not more than four could I put my finger and say they had been made from any other motive than the desire to get the best man. On some occasions the good appointments have been made in the teeth of strong political motives to the contrary.”
[280] Second Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Civil Establishments, 1888; q. 19,980, and 20,079 to 20,083.
[281] Second Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Civil Establishments, 1888; q. 17,564.
[282] Second Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Civil Establishments, 1888; q. 17,500, 20,141 to 20,149, 20,260, 20,262 and 20,338; and First Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Civil Establishments, 1887, p. 424.
[283] Second Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Civil Establishments, 1888; q. 17,250 to 17,253.