HC Deb 12 August 1901 vol 99 cc430-1
MR. HENNIKER HEATON (Canterbury)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether in consequence of the increasing scarcity of servants, particularly farm hands, in Great Britain, he has any objection to a list being kept at country post offices of servants wanted in the neighbourhood, the expense being met by a fee of one penny to be paid by those whose applications are placed in the book to be provided at the country post offices.

THE FINANCIAL SECRETAEY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,) Worcestershire, E.

The Postmaster General does not think it desirable to add the business of keeping a registry office for servants to the other functions of the post office.