§ MR. WATTI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the fact that service marks are given by the Civil Service Commissioners to boy clerksin compensation for the difficulties under which their studies are carried on, he will arrange to give service marks to boys of Glasgow and other large towns who can show equal difficulties in the way of carrying on their studies, owing to the demands of their employers on them.
§ MR. RUNCIMANNo sir; I think the course proposed by my hon. friend is open to several objections which render it quite impracticable.
§ MR. WATTDoes the hon. Gentleman seriously hold that boys in Government employment are more hardly worked than boys outside?
§ MR. RUNCIMANNo sir; but it is quite impossible to apply the same regulation to boys in private employment and to those in Government offices.