§ 84. Mr. JOHN WARDasked the Post master-General whether he has received the promised Report upon the girl probationer class at Hanley; and, if so, will he communicate its nature to the House?
§ The ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Captain Norton)Two girl probationers are employed on collecting, distributing, and sorting telegraph forms and on duties of a similar character in the instrument room at Hanley. The scale of wages is 5s. by 1s. to 6s. a week for a duty of thirty-six hours. The work was previously performed by indoor boy messengers who were paid 8s. a week for a working week of fifty hours. One girl probationer is also employed in the district manager's office on minor work of checking and sorting trunk telephone fee tickets 1587 and assisting in the dispatch of trunk fee accounts. These minor duties were formerly distributed between the female clerical assistants, on scale ranging from 14s. a week to 24s. a week for a working week of forty-eight hours.