§ Mr. KELLYasked the First Commissioner of Works if he will favourably consider the granting of Christmas holidays, i.e., Christmas Day and Boxing Day, with pay to the workmen employed in the Royal parks and gardens?
§ Mr. LANSBURYThe regular staff of the Royal parks will be granted leave with pay on Christmas Day and on Boxing Day, but the men on unemployment relief works will not have qualified by a year's service for this privilege. I have given instructions, however, that they may, if they wish, work next Saturday afternoon and the two Saturday afternoons following Christmas, in order to make up to some extent the wages lost.