§ 52. Mr. GINNELLasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that Hubert Murray, postal messenger, Rath-aspic, Westmeath, in the service of the Post Office during the last seventeen years, has been given notice of dismissal in the interest of economy; and, seeing that he is being paid only 5s. a week, that this is his sole means of living, and that bad health unfits him for manual labour, whether, in consideration of his long ser-Tice and circumstances and the trifling amount of the proposed saving, the notice will be withdrawn and this man's services continued?
§ Mr. J. PEASEUnder a revision of the postal services in the district, which was undertaken for purposes of economy, a short delivery duty, carrying wages of 5s. a week, which was performed by Hubert Murray, has been abolished. I regret that it is not practicablc to restore the duty, and that there is no other employment in the Post Office available for him.