§ MR. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he is aware of the practice in the Dublin Post Office whereby young lads who hold Civil Service certificates are compelled to wheel trucks laden with mail bags; and whether, seeing that this work should be performed by labourers, he will undertake to have this system abolished.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINIf the "lads" referred to are postmen, the duty mentioned is one proper to postmen; and the Postmaster General has no ground for supposing that the men now employed upon it at Dublin are not of suitable age for the work. But inquiry shall be made in the matter.