§ Mr. BARNESasked the Postmaster-General if girls are being substituted for boys in the internal messenger service of the Post Office; and, if so, are they to receive less wages than have been paid to the boys?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe employment to a limited extent of girls upon in-door messenger duties instead of boys in offices where there are women employed is one of the expedients now under consideration by a Committee appointed to consider the whole question of the employment of boys in the Post Office. I am not in a position to state the conditions under which girls would serve should this expedient be recommended and adopted.