§ MR. STEADMAN (Tower Hamlets, Stepney)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if duties paid under allowances to postmasters may now be given to either appointed or auxiliary postmen; and is he aware that in consequence of an order recently issued a Bewdley auxiliary postman has just been deprived of a duty for which for six years he has received 2s. 6d. a week.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HANBURY, Preston)By the rules of the service, duties for which it is necessary to provide by allowance to postmasters may not be given to either appointed or auxiliary postmen. It is found on inquiry that an auxiliary postman at Bewdley had been temporarily employed for about eighteen months, not six years as stated, upon a duty to provide for which the postmaster of Bewdley received an allowance of 2s. 6d. a week, but this irregular arrangement ceased on the 13th of January last.