§ MR. STEADMANI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster-General, why, considering that the Department admitted, through Mr. Lewin Hill, before the Tweedmouth Inquiry, that there were no sufficient grounds for paying rural postmen who started from a town office less than town postmen who worked in the town, rural postmen are paid 2s. per week less maximum wage than town postmen at the same offices?
§ MR. HANBURYThe wages of rural postmen starting from a town office on a country walk are fixed at 2 s. per week less, at the maximum of the scale, than those of the town postmen at the same offices, on the recommendation of Lord Tweedmouth's Committee, made after hearing all the evidence on the subject.