MR. PATRICK O'BRIENTo ask the Postmaster General, having regard to the fact that with one exception the female assistant supervisors employed at the counter offices in Liverpool have been at their maximum salaries for periods ranging from five to ten years, will he say whether he proposes to apply any, and, if so, what remedy.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) The fact that these officers are at their maximum salary does not, in my opinion consitute any ground for complaint. It 840 has been repeatedly decided by my predecessors that the salary of the assistant supervisors is sufficient for the duties perfomed; but as I have recently received an application on the subject from those employed at Liverpool, the question shall be again examined and my decision shall be announced to the applicants in due course.