§ SIR FRANCIS EVANS (Maidstone)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, having regard to the fact that on 31st July, 1900, the Central Committee of the Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association forwarded a petition to the Postmaster General asking that clerks with five years service should receive 28s. per week in the provinces and 30s. per week in London, and that in May, 1901, the Committee appealed for an answer, whether an answer can now be given.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINAs stated in a recent answer given upon this subject, the question respecting the pay of telegraphists with five years service, having been already settled in accordance with the recommendations of Lord Tweedmouth's Committee, is not regarded as open to discussion; and the Postmaster General informed a deputation from the Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association, which he received in July, 1901, to that effect.