FOOTNOTES:
[363] Third Report from the Select Committee on Civil Services Expenditure, 1873; q. 4,641 and 4,418.
[364] That is, the claim to additional pay for seven hours’ work.
[365] That is, the Civil Service Inquiry Commission, 1875-76, of which Sir T. H. Farrer was a member.
[366] Second Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Civil Establishments, 1888; q. 10,545 and following, and 20,043 and following.
[367] Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments, 1897; q. 13,279, 13,301 and following.
[368] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, November 21, 1902, p. 147.
[369] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, July 16, 1897, p. 352. Mr. R. W. Hanbury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and representing the Postmaster General: “But there were in the senior class certain men who, owing to the fact that they had been promoted by seniority without passing any examination, were not quite up to the normal average of the senior class.”
The reader will note that in 1890 no effort was made to remove the men not up to the standard of the senior class. The Government had to await the retirement or the death of the incompetent men.
[370] Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments, 1897; Mr. H. C. Fischer, Controller London Central Telegraph Office; q. 2,305.