§ MR. D. MACALEESE (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if he can state if auxiliary rural postmen in Ireland will be entitled under the new arrangements to summer uniforms, and when will those uniforms be distributed; are any rural postmen at the present time performing five hours per day duty; and, when will the increased pay of 15s. per week come into operation in those cases?
§ MR. HANBURYAuxiliary rural postmen in Ireland doing five hours' work or more a day will be entitled to summer uniform. It is feared that it will not be practicable to make the distribution of such uniform to them this year. The now arrangements apply to the whole of the United Kingdom, and the preparation of the contracts and the making of the uniforms will necessarily occupy a considerable time. There are rural postmen at the present time performing five hours per day duty. The increased pay 1527 of 15s. a week is to be given to postmen doing a full day's work. It will date from the 1st April last, and will be allotted as speedily as possible.