§ MR. W. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick)On behalf of the hon. Member for Dublin County, N. (Mr. CLANCY), I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, with regard to the fact that to obtain a half-holiday on Saturday the employés of the Ordnance Survey Department, Phœnix Park, Dublin, are obliged to work an additional half hour on other days of the week during the summer months, whether there is any precedent for such a regulation; and, in any case, whether he will consider the propriety of giving a half-holiday on Saturday without any condition such as that mentioned?
§ * THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. WALTER LONG,) Liverpool, West DerbyI am afraid I can only refer the hon. Member to the replies given by me to the Questions put by him on this subject on the 22nd August last. As I then stated, the aggregate hours worked per week in the Ordnance Survey Office at Dublin during the summer months are 44 for the engravers, and 41 for the civil assistants. These hours do not seem to me to be excessive, and I do not feel that I should be justified in proposing their reduction. I am informed that the arrangement under which the civil 1437 assistants work for 7½ hours on each of the first five days of the week and for 3½, hours on the Saturday is made at the request of the majority of the assistants themselves.