§ MR. SLOAN (Belfast, S.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the fact that arrangements in other large centres for running the duties on rotary or sectional lines are working satisfactorily, he will give instructions for the same to be carried out in the Belfast sorting office.
§ MR. SLOANTo ask the Postmaster-General if he can state under what circumstances a sorting clerk and telegraphist at Belfast, who is over nineteen years of age, has been informed that he cannot have the minimum wage fixed by the Stanley wages revision scheme unless he agrees to an alteration being made in his incremental date, which would inflict an ultimate loss upon the person affected.
§ MR. SLOANTo ask the Postmaster-General whether, in view of the fact that telegraph messengers at Belfast are compelled to perform Sunday duties from 6 a.m. till 10 o'clock, or they may have split duty from 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m., during which time each messenger rarely delivers four messages the value of which is 2d., he will consider the advisability of granting a fixed wage for Sunday duty.
§ MR. SLOANTo ask the Postmaster-General under what circumstances a female season substitute has been employed at Londonderry Post Office to replace a male operator; if he can say why a male person should not have been employed, seeing there are male learners open for such special work; and will the employment of the female instead of the male be allowed to affect prejudicially the duties of the entire male staff.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) I am making inquiries as regards the points raised in the foregoing Questions, and I will communicate the result to the hon. Member.