§ Mr. STEEL-MAITLANDasked the Postmaster-General, in view of the facts that the six largest provincial telegraph centres were excluded without cause shown from the rise in the maximum wages paid to telegraphists recommended by the Select Committee of 1906 in the case of London and other centres, that the conditions which were held to justify such a rise, namely, the altered conditions of work and the increased cost of living hold good also, mutatis mutandis, for these excluded centres, and that substantial increases have been granted to the superintending officials at these centres, while the wages of the subordinate clerks have remained stationary, whether he will reconsider his decision to retain the existing rates in the case of these centres?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELI fear I must abide by the answer which I gave to a previous question on the same subject asked by the hon. Member on the 21st ultimo