§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he has received a petition from the women clerks of the postal order branch praying for an increase in the initial salary of their class, which salary was reduced from £65 to £55 per annum in 1897, and whether he can see his way to granting their request.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINThe Postmaster General has received and duly 283 considered the memorial referred to, and he has answered the memorialists that the circumstances do not admit of his complying with their wishes.