Applicants for posts as poultry advisory officers were graded in accordance with their qualifications by boards set up by the Civil Service Commissioners, which included officers of my Department and outside experts, and every care was taken to apply uniform standards of grading as between applicants for the several sections of the National Agricultural Advisory Service. While I am, therefore, unable to accept the implication in the first part of the Question, I have received representations from the Institution of Professional Civil Servants about the general position of poultry advisory officers and am considering them.