§ 72 and 73. Sir PETER GRIGGSasked the Postmaster-General (1) whether he will authorise the wages rate of pay now being paid to the post office indoor staff at Stratford to be applied to the indoor staff at Ilford, the conditions and cost of living at both places being identical; (2) whether he is prepared to authorise the wages rate of pay now being made to the postmen at Manor Park to be applied to the postmen employed at Ilford, seeing the places are only divided by a narrow stream and the cost of living, including rents, at both places is identical?
§ The ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. Pike Pease)The staff employed at the Ilford Post Office are on scales of pay laid down for staff employed outside the London postal area by a Select Parliamentary Committee, which reported in 1913. The offices at Stratford and Manor Park are within the London postal area and the staff of employed there receive the "London"rates of pay recommended by the same Committee. The London postal area is already very extensive, and I regret that I should not at present be justified in enlarging it by the inclusion of Alford. At whatever point the boundary was drawn there would be differences between the rates of pay in contiguous areas.