COLONEL HERBERT (Monmouthshire, S.)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he will state the number of Poor Law children at present accommodated in the district and separate schools, the village communities, and grouped cottage homes of metropolitan unions and provincial unions respectively.
(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) The number of children in separate establishments of the guardians of Poor Law unions in England and Wales on the 1st January last was as follows:—
§ maximum number of hours for a rural postman to walk daily, and does this apply to town postmen, or are they 1343 expected to be on their feet for the whole eight hours in addition to walking to and from home.
§ (Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) The maximum duration of walking on duty for postmen employed on purely rural duties is an average of six hours per diem. The duties of a town postman are reckoned on a different basis, namely, on an attendance of forty-eight hours a week. A postman in a town is necessarily occupied for a considerable portion of his time on indoor duties in connection with deliveries or collections, and thus is not walking for the whole of his duty.