§ MR. MUNDELLAasked the Postmaster General, If he will inform the House when the scheme for improving the position of the employés in the minor establishments promised before the Whitsuntide Recess will be promul- 760 gated? The hon. Member said he asked the Question because he was informed that while the improvement had taken place in the metropolis, it had not reached the provinces. A Petition had been sent from Sheffield, complaining that the class of minor employés had received no benefit.
§ LORD JOHN MANNERS, in reply, said, that an experimental scheme was first tried in the metropolitan district. It was not true that the position of the minor employés in the country was worse than it was three years ago, for since 1872 a great improvement in their pay and status had taken place; and that had been the case also with respect to Sheffield.