§ MR. HENRY (Shropshire, Wellington)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he will take into consideration, should further reduction be necessary in the 1489 telegraph force at Shrewsbury, that this may be made from the female staff rather than that the married men should be compelled to leave Shrewsbury and go to other towns and, when vacancies occur which have to be filled up, that the appointment should be made, if possible, of men in preference to women.
§ (Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) Until the time comes for reducing the staff at Shrewsbury it is impossible for me to say how the reduction, should be effected, but the hon. Member may be assured that all the circumstances to which he refers will be fully considered and the reduction made with the least possible hardship to any section of the staff.