DEVOLUTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 18, 6 September 1911, Page 5

DEVOLUTION.

NEW OFFICIAL SYSTEM FOR BRJI AiN. London, Sptend.e!' 5. In pursuance of tho Postal Committee’s suggestion, Mr Herbert Samuel has agreed on a devolution si lime to become operative within Iwo months. England will he divided into twelve districts, each under a survevor-gone-ral, at a salary of fj 1000 a year. Ireland and Sc it laud v iff each have a surveyor-general, oaJi to have supremo control of all departments in his respective district with, ut reft r once to London. Redundant officials in London ari drafted to tho provinces and will form tho nuclei of tho surveyor-generals’ staffs, which include telephone managers. v At tho Nottingham headquarters’ telephone engineering works, another scheme will he simultaneously introduced, unifying tho pay and prospects of clerks in the various offices.