§ Mr. ESSLEMONTasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that not with standing the fact that the cost of living in Aberdeen has increased during the past twenty-one years the maximum wages of males sorting clerks and telegraphists have not been increased during that period; and whether he is now prepared to consider the propriety of readjusting the maximum?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe present scale of pay of the male sorting clerks and842W telegraphists at Aberdeen was fixed in accordance with the recommendations of the Select Committee which reported in 1907. I will inquire whether the amount of business transacted at Aberdeen warrants the promotion of that office to a higher class.