§ MR. SLOAN (Belfast, S.)To ask the Postmaster-General if he will say under what circumstances female learners in the Belfast office are listed for school attendance during the period when they are required to do ordinary manipulative work; and whether the effect of this arrangement is that the records show so many hours school attendance per day when, as a matter of fact, no such attendance is given.
§ MR. SLOANTo ask the Postmaster-General if he can hold out any prospect of permanent places being found at an early date for the female learners in the Belfast office who have so much as four years' service standing to their credit; if it is necessary to employ these learners 979 on manipulative work white they are officially in school; and can any reason be advanced why they should not be appointed and placed permanently at the work for which their services are now required.
§ (Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) I am inquiring into these matters referred to in both the hon. Member's Questions, and will communicate the result to him.