MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether female clerks in the Post Office, Dublin, forfeit £10 a year in salary on being transferred from London, their hours and duties being equal with their colleagues there; whether men clerks are subject to any similar deduction; and whether he can explain the reason for this exceptional treatment of Irish female clerks.
§ MR. HANBURYThe maximum of the Dublin scale is £10 less than the maximum of the London scale; and women clerks who are transferred (at their own request) from London to Dublin and are in receipt of pay in excess of the Dublin maximum sustain a loss to the extent of such excess. Men clerks would be treated in the same way under similar circumstances.