§ MR. MEAGHER (Kilkenny, N.)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General if he is aware that the Hobhouse Committee 500 appointed last year to inquire into the wages of Post Office servants, have made several recommendations in the different departments of the Post Office which he promised to carry out, and that in the case of women clerks employed in the savings banks, whose old scale of salary was an initial one of £55, with annual increments of £2 10s., the Committee recommended an initial salary of £65, with annual increments of £5; and whether, seeing that according to present arrangements the initial salary is £65 without any increment for five years, he will take steps to give such increments as were recommended by the Committee with a view to encouraging efficiency in the different departments.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. SYDNEY BUXTON,) Tower Hamlets, PoplarThe recommendations of the Select Committee in regard to women clerks in the Savings Bank Department have been carried out in full already.