SIR ALFEED THOMAS (Glamorganshire, E.)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General if he can now give the result of the recommendations of the classification of the Pontypridd Office.
§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTONThe classification of Pontypridd is shown on page 59 of the Parliamentary Paper No. 206 issued in July last. It is in accordance with the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee, the units of work being 282, which places it in Class III., the range of units of which is 240 to 800. The index number of the cost of living as ascertained by the Board of Trade is 102. The maximum pay is for sorting clerks and telegraphists, males 48s., females 32s. and for postmen 25s. a week. In addition to these maxima the sorting clerks and telegraphists can earn an allowance of 3s. a week for technical knowledge and the postmen, after periods of unblemished service, can earn good conduct stripes of the value of 1s. each up to a maximum of six stripes 6s. a week.