§ MR. JOHN CAMPBELL (Armagh, S.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the indoor working staff at Armagh consists of seven qualified male officers and seven females and learners, and that the women and learners are exempt from money-order work, night duty, and the handling of the principal mail despatches; and, if so, whether, in view of the fact that the male staff has been further reduced temporarily by two officers withdrawn for work elsewhere, he will take steps to relieve the strain in consequence placed upon the remainder of the staff.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) The indoor male staff actually employed at the Armagh Post Office has been reduced temporarily by one officer, who is in charge of a sub-post office, and not by two as the hon. Member appears to think, the second officer detatched for duty elsewhere being a female. I am satisfied that the male staff is not subjected to any undue strain in consequence of this temporary reduction.