§ MR. HUDSON (Newcastle-on-Tyne)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been called to the long hours worked by the gate signalmen at the St. George's Road and Hawthorne Avenue Level Crossings, Hull, on the North Eastern Railway; if he is aware that these men commence duty at 9.45 a.m. on Sundays and remain on duty until 6 a.m. on Mondays, a period of twenty hours and fifteen minutes, and then do five turns of 12-hour shifts and one of thirteen hours on night duty, making a total of ninety-three hours and fifteen minutes for the week on the main passenger line; and what action he proposes to take in the matter.
§ MR. KEARLEYI should be glad if the hon. Member would defer this Question for a week. The Board of Trade have not yet received the reply of the railway company with regard to this complaint.