Appointments in the messenger service in the Post Office are intended primarily for boys and girls from elementary schools and the maximum age limit for appointment is 14½ for boys and 15 for girls. The Post Office does not seek to attract secondary school pupils to such appointments, but it is not the practice to refuse to consider such candidates if their parents desire them to leave school for the purpose of a career in the Post Office. I understand that in the case which my hon. Friend has in mind the approach was from the child's grand-parents, and that the position in view was that of assistant at a sub-post office.