[124] _Second Report of the Royal Commission on Civil Establishments_, 1888; Sir Lyon Playfair; q. 20,124 to 20,194; Sir Reginald E. Welby, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, 10,557 to 10,560; and Appendix, p. 570 and following. [125] _Parliamentary Paper_, No. 286, Session of 1881. [126] _Report from the Select Committee on Revenue Departments Estimates_, 1888; Appendix No. 12, Mr. C. H. B. Patey, Third Secretary to the Post Office. [127] _Hansard's Parliamentary Debates_, August 16, 1881, p. 128. [128] That is, he had given the telegraphists an interview. [129] _Hansard's Parliamentary Debates_, August 16, 1881, p. 141. [130] _The narrative ignores the parts of the scheme affecting the_ letter carriers and letter sorters. [131] For an account of the organization and the duties of the Treasury, as well as of the position and the duties of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, see Chapter XVII. [132] _Parliamentary Paper_, No. 286, Session of 1881. [133] In consequence of the fact that wages and salaries rise by annual increments from the minimum to the maximum, some years must elapse before the full effect of the increase in pay granted in 1881 would be felt. It was assumed that in the first year the total increase in expenditure would be $85,000, and that ultimately it would be $700,000. In that connection it was common to speak of a mean increase of $450,000. [134] _Hansard's Parliamentary Debates_, June 26, 1882, p. 429 and 431. [135] _Hansard's Parliamentary Debates_, March 29, 1883, p. 1,016. [136] _Hansard's Parliamentary Debates_, April 24, 1884, p. 572. [137] From 1874 to 1880 Sir S. A. Blackwood had been Financial Secretary to the Post Office. [138] _Report from the Select Committee on Revenue Departments Estimates_; q. 403 and 404. [139] _Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments_, 1897; q. 11,641 to 11,648. [140] _Second Report of the Royal Commission on Civil Establishments_, 1888; q. 10,562-3, 10,742 to 10,749, and 10,772 to 10,783. [141] _Who's Who_, 1903, West, Sir Algernon E.; Was a clerk in the Admiralty: Assistant Secretary to Sir C. Wood and Duke of Somerset; Secretary to Sir C. Wood at India Office, and to Mr. Gladstone when Prime Minister; Chairman of Board of Inland Revenue. [142] _Second Report of the Royal Commission on Civil Establishments_, 1888; q. 17,438 to 17,447. [143] _Second Report of the Royal Commission on Civil Establishments_, 1888; q. 20,238. [144] _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.