§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)To ask the Postmaster-General if he will give the number of adult night messengers employed at each office in Scotland, with the number of hours they are on duty each week, the amount of their weekly wages, if they are paid for overtime and Sunday duty; will he state the number of messengers at each office against whom no report has been recorded during the past four years; and would he consider the advisability, by the bestowal of an occasional appointment as sub-office postman, award of good conduct stripes, or a small increase in wages, of encouraging only those night messengers whose character and conduct are reported as being thoroughly satisfactory by their respective postmasters.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) I am having inquiry made and will communicate the result to the hon. Member.