§ MR. FIELDTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury when it is intended to grant an increase of pay to outport watchers in the Customs Department; and if he is aware that the labourers employed by the Dublin Corporation have a much higher rate of wages than the watchers employed at Dublin.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The rates of wages received by these men are adequate for the duties which they perform, and I see no sufficient reason for increasing them. I have no information as to the wages paid to labourers by the Dublin Corporation.