§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he is aware that the staff at the Central Telegraph Office have been informed that on Saturdays, the 21st and 28th June, the usual monthly early afternoon turns will be suspended; and, seeing that this is due to the giving of facilities to members of the staff who are Volunteers to attend reviews, the Postmaster General will arrange that the telegraph staff who are not Volunteers shall not be called upon to work extra time in order that this may be done.
(Answer.) The suspension of the privilege of leaving early in the Central Telegraph Office on Saturday next and 1103 the following Saturday is due almost entirely to the great increase of work connected with the Coronation season. The absence for part of the day on Saturday next of certain Volunteers is a comparatively small consideration, and it is not expected that any Volunteers will be absent on the following Saturday,—(Post Office.)