§ MR. VINCENT KENNEDYI beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether the rule reducing the age limit from twenty-five to eighteen years in the case of girls seeking to enter the Post Office service in Ireland is intended to apply to learners who have almost completed the twelve months probation, and who, at the date of the making of the rule, were only a few months over the age limit; and whether, in view of the loss of time this rule will inflict on these girls and their parents, he will take steps to except such cases from the operation of the rule.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Lord STANLEY, Lancashire, Westhoughton)The maximum limit of age for admission as learners in the Post Office has been eighteen for some years, and this limit is 973 retained in connection with the new arrangements for filling such situations generally by competition in Ireland. As in the past, assistants at sub-post offices will be eligible to take part in the limited competitions at Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Londonderry, and Waterford, provided they have been continuously employed by the Post Office from a time when they were under twenty-five years of age.