§ MR. FLYNNI beg to ask the Postmaster General whether he will state what steps, if any, have been taken towards improving the position and pay of the rural postmen in Ireland, or if he will sanction the scheme of the late Postmaster General, put forward in August, 1891, by a part of which it was proposed to give an increase of 2s. to their weekly salary, and an annual increment of 1s. up to 17s. per week; and, if so, have any steps been taken to put this part of the scheme into execution?
§ SIR JAMES FERGUSSONThe rural postmen in Ireland, in common with the rural postmen in England and Scotland, have shared in the benefits of the revision sanctioned in August last, by which men doing a full day's duty, and previously on fixed weekly wages, were placed on a scale of pay rising by 1s. a week, in no case to less than 17s. a week, and in some cases to as high as 21s. a week.