Sir Percy Hard:

asked the Postmaster-General whether his attention has been drawn to the practice of officials of his Department, as in Wiltshire, who tempt children away from secondary schools by offers of employment as messengers before the completion of their school course in defiance of the under- taking which parents are required by the Board of Education to sign stipulating that the children shall remain at school until the end of the school year following their 16th birthday; and whether he will cause this practice to cease?