§ MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick's)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture has the employment of excessive juvenile labour been discontinued in the Ordnance Survey Office, Phoenix Park, Dublin, and has the Fair Wage Resolution been adopted in the Department?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. H. GARDNER,) Essex, Saffron WaldenI am sorry I cannot add anything to what I have already stated to my hon. Friend in reply to the previous questions he has addressed to me on this subject. The information before me goes to show that the proportion of boy or "juvenile" labour is not greater than is consistent with the nature of the work to be done, and that a comparison of the position of the Ordnance 1257 Survey Staff in Dublin with that of persons doing similar work in private employ would be favourable to the former, and I may refer my hon. Friend to the conclusions arrived at by the Departmental Committee of 1891, a copy of whose Report was laid on the Table.