§ MR. SNAPE (Lancashire, S.E., Heywood)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether the late Postmaster General issued an Order that all telegraph messengers should, at the age of 16, leave the Service and join the Army or Navy; whether, at present, the boys are being compelled to sign an agreement that they will conform to this Order; and whether he will give instructions that it be rescinded?
§ THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. ARNOLD MORLEY, Nottingham, E.)I would inform my hon. Friend that a question dealing with this subject stands on the Notice Paper for Friday, the 24th of February, in the name of the hon. Baronet the Member for the Barnard Castle Division of Durham (Sir J. Pease). I would ask my hon. Friend to allow me to postpone a detailed answer until that day; but I may say that there is no Order that all telegraphic messengers should at the age of 16 leave the Service and join the Army or Navy.