§ 63. Mr. HARMSWORTHasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, seeing that children who have not attended secondary schools are ineligible for employment in the Post Office and other Departments of the public service, he will consider whether this handicap can be removed in the interests of children showing merit and promise?
Mr. GRAHAMIt is understood that in pursuance of a recommendation by a subcommittee 2133 of the Post Office Whitley Council candidates for nomination to the Civil Service Commissioners for the situation of sorting clerk and telegraphist in certain smaller provincial offices are recruited from local secondary schools. The juvenile classes of boy messengers and girl probationers from which entrants to large classes of the Post Office establishment are promoted are drawn very generally from pupils of elementary schools, and it is not the case that children who have not attended secondary schools are debarred from employment in other Departments of the Civil Service.