§ Mr. RAPERasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if the grades of first and second-class women clerks are now obsolete; and what is the number of these women assimilated to the lower clerical grade?
Mr. YOUNGThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The number of first and second class women clerks assimilated to the clerical class is approximately 3,968, in addition to 417 clerks of analogous classes in the Ministry of Labour.