§ MR. NANNETTI () Dublin, College GreenTo ask the Postmaster General if he is aware that in Dublin sorting clerks and telegraphists, the majority of whom are between the ages of seventeen and twenty years, are compelled to carry baskets filled with newspapers and bookpackets, and that some of the baskets weigh more than a stone when empty; and whether, seeing that the weight limit which a postman on collection is compelled to carry is 28 Ibs., and that when these receptacles mentioned are full they weigh at least double this, he will take steps to provide that the duty devolves upon men better fitted for the work.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) Arrangements were made in August last for relieving the sorting clerks in Dublin of certain work proper to postmen, and I am not aware that anything more is required. I will have further inquiry made, however, on the point raised by the hon. Member.