§ MR. STEADMAN (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, whether he is aware that the system of fixed wage appointments in the postal service, which was abolished by Mr. Raikes in 1891, as announced in his speech delivered in this House on July 17th in that year, has recently been re-introduced into the service; and, if so, will he state by whose authority?
§ MR. HANBURYThe honourable Member's Question probably relates to the wages of rural postmen living in the country, and starting on their walks from sub-post-offices. If this be so, the pay of this class is, under the recommendations of the Tweedmouth Committee, fixed according to the work performed and the rates of wages current in the district, subject to a minimum of 16s. a week for a full duty in Great Britain, and 15s. a week in Ireland.