§ SIR J. LUBBOCK (London University)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether any regulation has been issued requiring shops which are also postal sub-offices to remain open on Bank Holidays; and, if so, whether, considering the long hours of labour of shop assistants, he would reconsider the subject?
§ * THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Sir J. FERGUSSON,) Manchester, N. E.No such regulation has been issued. The general practice is to close the small offices which are not telegraph offices at noon on Bank Holidays, and in London and most of the large towns they are for the most part altogether closed. The tendency is rather to relax the existing conditions than to make them more stringent.