§ Mr. NANNETTIasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the post of controller's messenger in the Dublin Post Office, which has hitherto been an established post and a promotion for Dublin postmen, has now been degraded to an unestablished post, the salary being reduced from a maximum of 38s. a week to 22s. a week and given to a pensioned 1631W police officer; whether he will explain why this has been done, in view of the understanding that unestablished labour shall only be employed where it is impossible to avoid it; and what compensation is to be given to the Dublin postmen for this lessening of their prospects of promotion?
§ Mr. BUXTONThe appointment to which the hon. Member refers was peculiar to the Dublin Sorting Office, and it was decided when an opportunity offered to adopt at that office the same arrangement as is in force at other large offices, and on a vacancy to employ an unestablished doorkeeper in place of an established messenger.