HC Deb 11 August 1879 vol 249 cc673-4
SIR FREDERICK PERKINS

asked the First Commissioner of Works, Whether the Saturday half-holiday is confined to the administrative officers, or is general in all Government Departments, so far as the requirements of the service will permit?

MR. GERARD NOEL

, in reply, said, that there was no half-holiday in the Ordnance Survey Department at Southampton, and that the Directors had not as yet recommended it.