MR. P. O'BRIENI beg to ask the Postmaster General if he is aware that a rural postman named Michael McHale, employed at Foxford, County Mayo, has to travel 15 miles per day for wages of ten shillings per week; and whether this man is entitled, under a scale of pay fixed in 1891, to an 971 increase of two shillings per week, and an annual weekly increment of one shilling per week; and, if so, whether he will see that he is allowed the increase from the date the new scale of pay was issued?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Sir J. FERGUSSON, Manchester, N.E.)The total length of this postman's walk is 12½ miles, not 15 miles; and his work is finished by 11 a.m. every day. Not being fully employed he is not entitled to be paid on scale, as suggested; but inquiry shall be made whether any addition should be made to his wages.