§ Mr. R. RICHARDSONasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, under the regulations governing the appointment of temporary chemical assistants in the Department of the Government Chemist, the senior trained and fully qualified assistants over 30 are compelled to retire first, notwithstanding the retention in the Department of certain qualified and less trained temporary women chemical assistants, who were engaged in the Department in the first instance owing to the exigencies of the War, and also notwithstanding the continued engagement of new women temporary chemical assistants in the early part of this year?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe answer to the question is in the negative. There is no regulation governing the order in which temporary chemical assistants in the Department of the Government Chemist, who have passed the age of 30, shall retire.