§ MR. J. PHILLIPSTo ask the Postmaster-General if he is aware that William Dowler, a postboy carrying letters from Corboy post office to meet the post running from Ballinalee to Edge-worthstown at Moat Farrell cross roads, county Longford, Ireland, a distance of three miles, and having to make two journeys daily, waits for the mails at the 831 cross roads without any shelter, and working seven days a week, receives only the sum of 5s. 10d. weekly; and will he order an increase in Dowler's pay.
§ THE POSTMASTER - GENERAL (Mr. SYDNEY BUXTON, Tower Hamlets, Poplar)The post office messenger re ferred to is paid the wages stated for a duty occupying 2½ hours daily. These wages are fixed at the authorised rates, and I should not be justified in increasing them as there is no case for exceptional treatment. The messenger is timed to reach the cross roads only five minutes before the mails arrive there.