§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, in view of the fact that rural postmen in England who use their own bicycles are granted an allowance of 4s. week, a similar consideration will be extended to rural postmen in Ireland?
§ MR. HANBURYRural postmen in England or in Ireland who are required to use a cycle in the performance of their official duties are granted an allowance of 4s. week. But there are a number of men who obtain permission to use their own cycles on posts which are laid down as foot posts, and in such cases no allowance is granted. The treatment of the postmen is the same whether in England or Ireland.