§ MR. W. JOHNSTONOn behalf of the honourable Member for North Belfast, I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, will he explain why, although the Tweedmouth Committee reported that at offices where telegraphists rise to 54s. per week clerks should rise to £175 per annum, the telegraphists in Belfast have attained to 54s. per week, but the clerks have been kept at £160 per annum; and whether he will take steps to have this remedied by advancing the clerks to £175?
§ MR. HANBURYThe statement of the Tweedmouth Committee was a statement of supposed fact, not a recommendation for the future. It was not, however, accurate as representing the actual arrangement in existence.