Note 166 — Chapter IX · The Post Office Employees Press the House of Commons for Increases of Wages and Salaries

In April, 1896, Mr. Lewin Hill, Assistant Secretary to General Post Office, stated that on the basis of the staff of 1896, the Fawcett and Raikes schemes were costing the Post Office Department $6,000,000 a year in increased expenditure. The Postmaster General’s statement of an increase of $3,750,000 in the expenditure had been made on the basis of the members actually employed in 1881 and 1891 respectively. Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments, 1897; q. 12,382 and 15,123.