§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow.W.)To ask the Postmaster-General whether cycle postmen are expected to clean and attend to their cycles in their own time; and whether, in view of the diversity of practice, he will issue a circular defining what is meant by minor repairs, which, in addition to cleaning, have to be performed by postmen.
§ (Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) Cycle postmen are expected to clean and attend to their cycles in their own time, and a special allowance is made to them in respect of this work. The minor repairs a postman is expected to effect are those which an ordinary rider would do for his own machine. I do not think any precise definition is needed.