§ 70. Mr. DOUGLAS HALLasked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that many sorting clerks and telegraphists who are in receipt of the maximum salary of their grade earn more than would be paid to them if promoted to be overseers; and if, under the recommendations of the Holt Committee, this condition of affairs is made more common, and promotion to the overseers' class will entail a loss of income to many of the officers promoted?
§ The POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. Hobhouse)It is the case that at the maximum of the sorting clerk and telegraphist scale the total emoluments of a sorting clerk and telegraphist who chooses to work much overtime, not infrequently exceed the minimum (without overtime) of the overseers' scale. The Holt Committee's recommendations will have the tendency which the hon. Member suggests.