§ Mr. STAVELEY-HILLasked whether unestablished female telephonists, with wages from 10s. to 12s. a week, are required to live away from home; and whether, having regard to the impossibility of meeting the cost of living out of such wages, and to the financial inability in many cases of parents to contribute towards their daughters' maintenance, the Postmaster-General will, where-ever possible give instructions for the removal of such unestablished female telephonists to exchanges at towns where their parents live, or make an allowance to meet the extra cost of living away from home?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELIt is not the fact that unestablished female telephonists are required to live away from home; but one or two cases have occurred1182W in which, owing to the proposed closing of the exchanges to which they have been attached temporary part-time telephonists have been offered employment as unestablished full-time telephonists at other offices as an alternative to their services being dispensed with, although, I may add, it was a condition of their original employment that their services might be discontinued at any time without notice. Any such officer would, when opportunity offers, be allowed to return to the place where her parents live. I am unable to make a special allowance in such cases.