§ MR. D. CRILLY (Mayo, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, how much of the immediate additional expenditure on the Post Office Department of £135,000, and of the ultimate increased cost of £275,000, will be received by the London inspectors of postmen, the provincial inspectors of postmen, the London sorters, the provincial sorting clerks, and the London overseers, head postmen, bagmen, lobby officers, and telegraph linemen?
The HON. MEMBERalso asked the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, how much of the £150,000, which he informed the House the other day would eventually go to the postmen as the result of the adoption of the recommendations by the Tweedmouth Committee, will fall to the lot of the poorest paid class, the rural postman?
§ MR. HANBURYIn reply to the two Questions of the hon. Member, the Postmaster General does not consider that it would be right to furnish minute details of the proportionate cost of applying the recommendations of the Tweedmouth Committee to the several classes of Post Office servants who will be benefited, and he must therefore decline to give the 1528 particulars asked for. With regard, however, to one part of the hon. Member's Question, the Postmaster General feels bound to demur to the reference to the rural postmen as the poorest paid class of Post Office servants.