§ MR. LOUIS SINCLAIR (Essex, Romford)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he is in a position to reply to the petition sent to him by the Ilford postmen
† See (4) Debates, CXIV., 1339.267 on 21st February, and acknowledged by the Secretary of the General Post Office about the 8th March, who promised that it should receive due consideration; and whether he will grant the Ilford postmen a maximum wage of 28s., seeing that the maximum wage in the adjacent parish of East Ham, where rent and cost of living is cheaper, is 30s.(Answered by Lord Stanley.) The petition from the Ilford postmen is receiving attention, and a reply will be given to the memorialists as soon as the necessary inquiries have been completed. I am not in a position to say at present what the decision will be.