DR. RUTHERFORD (Middlesex, Brentford)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General, whether he is aware that in the new scales of pay for postmen there is a difference of 8s per week in the maximum between districts in the London postal area and adjoining provincial towns, although in these towns the police are paid on the metropolitan scale; whether he is aware that a number of these towns on provincial rates of pay are as near or nearer to London than some districts in the London postal area; and whether, in view of the fact that the recent committee did not go into the question of what districts constitute London, he will extend the London postal area so as to include all towns within the 12-mile radius.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. SYDNEY BUXTON,) Tower Hamlets, PoplarIn recommending scales of wages for the metropolitan area, the committee accepted the existing London Postal District as representing that area. I have adopted the committed recommendation on this matter.