Note 144 — Chapter IX · The Post Office Employees Press the House of Commons for Increases of Wages and Salaries
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Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments, 1897, Mr. Lewin Hill, Assistant Secretary, General Post Office, London; q. 15,123 and 15,119.
The subjoined table shows the changes made in the wages of the second class provincial telegraphists, who enter the service as boys and girls, from fourteen years upward, and are taught telegraphy at the cost of the Department.
Age of the Telegraphist Wage Under the Fawcett Scheme Wage Under the Raikes Scheme
Years$$
164.003.50
174.374.50
184.755.00
195.125.50
205.506.00
215.876.50
226.257.00
236.627.50
247.008.00
257.378.50
267.759.00
278.129.50
288.5010.00
298.8710.00
309.2510.00
319.5010.00