§ Mr. WESTWOODasked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that the regulations of the Post Office permit the employment of boys as telegraph messengers under the age of 14 years; and, if so, whether, in view of the fact that the legal age for leaving school is the first prescribed date succeeding a 1599W child's 14th birthday, the regulation will be amended so as to prohibit the employment of boys under that age?
§ Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSONThe Regulations provide that candidates for appointment as boy messengers in the Post Office must be under 14½ years of age, except in localities where a higher school-leaving age is in force, and that no candidate should be accepted until he is legally exempt from further full-time attendance at school, i.e., normally at the end of the term in which he attains the age of 14.