§ MR. STOCK (Liverpool, Walton)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether there are vacancies for Assistant Inspectors of Messengers at Liverpool, but that, owing to the inadequate scale of pay, it is impossible to obtain suitable candidates; and, if so, will he take immediate steps to have the position of Assistant Inspectors of Messengers at Liverpool improved; and whether these officers have been petitioning during the past three years to have their grievances redressed, and why nothing has been done by the General Post Office, although they have been urgently recommended to improve the pay of these officers?
§ MR. A. MORLEYThere has recently been some difficulty in getting suitable candidates from among the senior postmen to fill vacancies in the class of Assistant Inspectors of Telegraph Messengers at Liverpool. A proposal is now under examination for somewhat improving the scale of wages for the Assistant Inspectors, and it is hoped that in this way the difficulty will be removed.