HC Deb 06 March 1891 vol 351 c428
DR. TANNER (in the absence of Mr. SEXTON)

I beg to ask the Postmaster General on what grounds is payment in full for Sunday duty in the Dublin Post Office withheld from hall porters, bag officers, yard officers, postmen, and labourers, and only paid to sorters; if it is the fact that a Treasury Minute was issued last July, 1890, for payment in full for all grades performing Sunday duty; and will he have an order made to the Dublin authorities to likewise pay the officers referred to above, the same as has been granted to sorters dating from last July?

*THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. RAIKES,) Cambridge University

In reply to the hon. Member, I have to state that by Treasury Minute of July last, payment for Sunday duty was authorised in the case of sorting clerks and telegraphists. No such authority has been granted as regards other classes of Post Office servants, whose case is now under consideration.