§ MR. STEADMANI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if he will direct that the duties of rural postmen on bank holidays shall be arranged in the same manner as their Good Friday duties, by allowing the men to commence their return journey immediately on completion of the outward delivery, instead of waiting to bring in the afternoon collection, thus giving them the benefit of the holiday.
§ MR. HANBURYPublic complaint would arise if there were no collections of letters on bank holidays by rural postmen, especially as they are mostly on Mondays, and there would thus in many places be two consecutive days without any opportunity of posting letters. On Good Fridays the trains run as on Sundays, and the letters collected could not be forwarded by the usual mail. This is not the case on bank holidays.