§ Mr. DORISasked the Postmaster-General if he will state why full-time assistants, who performed duties exactly similar to those of established officers, are allowed during illness only two-thirds of their small salaries, amounting in the maximum to 24s. per week for males and 22s. a week for females; whether, pending the finding of the Hobhouse Committee Report, he will allow such assistants their full salaries during illness; can he state when the case of the assistants re- 483W ferred to will be completed, in accordance with the findings of the Hobhouse Committee's Report of 1908; and will any increases of pay that may be allowed be paid from the date of that Report?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe rates of pay of all unestablished officers of the Post Office when on sick leave are two-thirds their ordinary rates; full-time assistants come under this rule. The latter part of the hon. Member's question is not clear, but I would inform him that the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee in regard to the pay of assistants have been carried out as from 1st January, 1908. The maximum pay is 30s. for men and 26s. for women, as shown on page 19 of the Parliamentary Paper, Post Office (Changes in Wages, etc.), issued in July, 1908.