§ Mr. DAWESasked the Postmaster-General whether he will consider fixing the hours of the viewers employed in the stores department at the Studd Street depot at forty-eight hours per week attendance in accordance with the recommendation of the Select Committee on Post Office Servants, seeing that these men, since attaining their maximum salary, have ceased to receive any allowance for the extra 2½ hours per week attendance, and are now working the extra hours without remuneration?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe class of viewers was one of the smaller classes which the Select Committee recommended should be considered by the Department,1688W and dealt with as far as possible on the lines adopted for the larger classes; and a Departmental Committee was appointed for this purpose by my predecessor. Under the recommendations of that Committee the status of the viewers was improved; they were established and given better pay, and at the same time their hours were altered. Whereas formerly they attended for forty-eight hours a week and had certain reliefs during that attendance, their hours of actual working were thereafter to be forty-eight-the hours recommended by the Select Committee for other Stores Department classes. I see no case for considering the matter; the scale of pay, in my opinion, affords adequate remuneration for the work and hours.