§ MR. MACALEESE (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether the Department sanctions the practice of using girl telegraph learners to deliver postal messages, as in the case of the Newbliss post office; whether such practice prevails in any part of England; and will he issue instructions for this system to be discontinued.
§ MR. HANBURYYes, Sir; it is with the sanction of the Department that assistants at a post office like Newbliss, whether they be girls or boys, are employed in the delivery of telegraph (not postal) messages. Such a practice prevails in England.