§ MR. J. ROWLANDS (Finsbury, E.)asked the Postmaster General, Whether a number of boys employed in the Tele- 32 graph Department are, after they have done their regular duty, employed in overtime work in the Circulation Department of the General Post Office; and, if he can state the number of boys so employed, their ordinary hours of duty, and the average number of hours overtime they work per week?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. RAIKES) (Cambridge University)In reply to the hon. Member I have to state that in the Circulation Department of the General Post Office the number of telegraph boys employed on overtime is about 214; that their ordinary hours of duty are about nine, out of which, however, two intervals are allowed—one for dinner and another for tea—and that their average overtime is two-and-a-half hours a-week. As I do not approve, however, of lads working overtime, arrangements are being made with a view to its discontinuance.