§ MR. CRILLY (Mayo, N.)asked the Secretary to the Treasury, If he has received a memorial from the letter sorters employed in the Holyhead and Kingstown Post Office, which was forwarded to him on the 20th of April last; if it is a fact that the trip allowance paid to these letter sorters is exactly the same as that paid to Railway travelling sorters; and, if the letter sorters employed on both the English and Irish Railways are in receipt of payment for Sunday work; and, if such is the case, will the Department consider, at its earliest convenience, the claim of the Holyhead and Kingstown packet sorters to be paid for Sunday work, so that they may be put on an equality with all other travelling sorters?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HENRY H. FOWLER) (Wolverhampton, E.)The Memorial to which the hon. Member refers has been received by the Postmaster General. The trip allowance paid to the packet sorters is at the same rate as the trip allowance 29 paid to the railway sorters; but while the rate is the same, the profits derived from it are greater. Some few years ago it was decided that unless the trip allowance were reduced the packet sorters could not, like the railway sorters, receive payment for Sunday work. In connection with the present Memorial, however, the question is being considered afresh.