There is a continuing competition for the recruitment of factory inspectors and steps have been taken to improve both the publicity for it and liaison with the universities and technical colleges from which most of the candidates come. These measures have resulted in a net increase in the actual strength of the Inspectorate of 32 in the last 2½ years. That part of the work of enforcing the Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act which falls on the Factory Inspectorate will be spread over the whole body of some four hundred inspectors and forty-two new posts were authorised some months ago to meet the additional load.