§ MR. REDDY (King's County, Birr)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury how many assistant clerks (recruited from competition among boy clerks and boy copyists) are at present in the Civil Service, and how many of these in the Statistical Office, Custom House, London.
(Answered by Mr. Victor Cavendish.) The number of certificates granted from competitions (limited and open among boy clerks, boy copyists, and ex-boy clerks and ex-boy copyists) as assistant clerks of the abstractor class was, up to February last, 1,806 for all departments. The number of assistant clerks serving in the Statistical Office of the Customs is 109.