§ MR. STEADMANI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if he is aware that a Hollington rural postman (recently transferred from Tean, Stoke-upon-Trent), who in April, 1894, was appointed an un-established postman on a scale of wages rising from 15s. to 19s. per week, has 121 been refused any increment beyond 17s. per week; and, if so, on what ground has his original agreement for service been thus departed from.
§ MR. HANBURYIt is not the case that the rural postman referred to was appointed an unestablished postman on a scale of wages, nor was any promise made to him of a rise. As he was ineligible for appointment to the establishment, he was allowed, as an act of grace, to remain in the Department's service, and to occupy temporarily a post which should in ordinary course have been filled by an established man, and the wages of which would in that case have been fixed at 16s. a week. Since the date of his first employment in his present capacity his wages have been increased from 15s. to 17s. 6d. a week, so that he is now receiving 1s. 6d. a week more than his successor will obtain.