§ MR. SNOWDEN (Blackburn)To ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that a postman's walk at Kildwick, Yorkshire, occupying seven hours or more daily, has been performed for many years by an unestablished postman who has now retired; and whether it is his intention to turn this into an established walk, in accordance with his expressed desire to reduce auxiliary labour in the Post Office, and the departmental evidence tendered to the Hobhouse Committee to the effect that a postman's duty of more than six hours a day was bound to be an appointed one.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) The duty in question does not exceed six hours a day, of which about five hours are occupied in walking. Under these circumstances the duty will for the present be maintained as an unestablished post. I may, however, state that the man now7 employed is not eligible for an established appointment.