Note 292 — Chapter XV · The House of Commons, Under Pressure from the Civil Service Unions, Curtails the Executive’s Power to Promote Employees According to Merit
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Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments, 1897; q. 12,158. Compare, for example, Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, September 18, 1893. Mr. A. Morley, Postmaster General, states that 10 men had been passed over, after having been found wanting upon a trial on higher duties. He added: “I am, however, making further inquiries.”