§ Mr. DEVLINasked the Postmaster-General whether an agreement was made under the Whitley Council to pay increased salaries to temporary Post Office sorters; whether he is aware that at present in the Belfast Post Office the temporary men are paid wages ranging from £2 19s. to £3 5s. per week, which rates are totally inadequate to meet the present cost of living, especially for married men; and whether, as these men have now been waiting almost a year for this increase, he will take immediate steps to have the increased rates, with the accumulated arrears, recommended by the Whitley Council paid to those men before Christmas?
§ Mr. PEASEInstructions have been given for the payments due to temporary Post Office employés under the agreement referred to by the hon. Member to be made as soon as possible.