§ Mr. OLIVER LOCKER-LAMPSONasked whether Frank Brown, now fen postman at Worboys, Huntingdonshire, started work for the post office with three deliveries a week at 6s. 9d. per week, which in due course was raised to 9s. 6d., and later on to 10s. 6d.; that he has since been obliged to undertake six deliveries a week and, with a weekly allowance of 2s. 6d. for using his own bicycle, is paid now only 6s. 9d. a week besides for his duties; and will the right hon. Gentleman state the cause for this reduction of salary combined, as it is, with an increase of work?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELI am aware of the circumstances to which the hon. Member refers. The pay is on an hourly basis, and as the auxiliary postman is now occupied only eighteen hours a week, as against twenty-eight formerly, the reduction of pay is in order. The allowance for the cycle is in addition to the 6s. 9d. a week. The postman was offered employment in the evening which would have increased his wages to 8s. a week, but he was unable to accept the offer.