§ MR. CLAUDE HAYTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he is aware that in the Customs Department port service clerks are granted twenty-one days annual leave after five years service; messengers eighteen days after five years service; and that house porters, constables, and watchmen receive sixteen days; whereas the senior abstractors or assistant clerks, whose average length of service is over eighteen years, are granted only fourteen days; and if he can grant to the latter class such an extension of their annual leave as will bring it more into harmony with that of other ranks in the Customs Department.
(Answered by Mr. Victor Cavendish.) The matter of leave referred to by my hon. friend will be dealt with in the reply to the memorial from the assistant clerks, which will shortly be issued.