§ MR. O'GRADY (Leeds, E.)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether, in the matter of applications for extra clerks daring the pressure of Christmas work at Bristol, those who are unemployed will be given preference; and whether, since the announcement as to the work to be provided by the Post Office, any clerks have been taken on at the Bristol office who have temporarily left their present employment, or will such applications be entertained.
§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTONNo men have yet been taken on at Bristol for Christmas pressure; but there, as elsewhere, in accordance with announcements which I have already made in this House, applications from men who are in employment will not be enter- 1226 tained if suitable men for the duties to be performed can be found among the genuinely unemployed.