§ MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether he will arrange that the Irish survey labourers and chain men will receive equal pay to that given to men in similar positions in England; whether he is aware that some of the Southampton unskilled labourers with a fixed abode receive higher wages than the Irish field sections who move from station to station; and whether this inequality of pay will be considered and remedied.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The wages paid to survey labourers in the field are the same in Ireland as in Great Britain, with the exception of those at Southampton, where slightly higher rates are paid owing to the higher rate of wages generally paid for unskilled labour in the locality.