§ Mr. Mathersasked the Postmaster-General whether he will cancel the maximum of 14½ years of age for the entry of boys into the Post Office service as telegraph messengers, in view of the way this condition prevents suitable boys from obtaining entry to the service?
§ Mr. W. S. MorrisonEmployment as boy messenger in the Post Office is intended primarily for boys from elementary schools. The maximum age limit has accordingly been fixed at 14½ years. The Post Office undertakes to provide a permanent career for all satisfactory boy messengers, and early recruitment is therefore particularly desirable, in order that each boy may render a reasonable period of juvenile service and that the total number of boys to be provided with adult situations may be kept within manageable proportions. Other situations are, of course, available in the Post Office for boys who remain at school to a later age.