BOY TELEGRAPH MESENGERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1919, Page 8

BOY TELEGRAPH MESENGERS.

.It has: been decided to revert to the pre-war employment of boy telegraph messengers in the British post officesThe change, which will extend over about four years, and will apply equal ly to London and the province®, will affect about 7000 of the giri messenger* who have been carrying on during the war" It is felt that the night work required is not quite suited to girls of 14, but the chief reason for the action is that the employment in the case of girls is a blind alley, and that when they reach the age of 18 they cannot be absorbed into the permanent per eonncl of the Post Office. For some years all the boyar employed as roes eengera have been absorbed, chiefly as postmen. It is .an order that this system may continue that tlib displacement of the girls is to take place gradually. . Boy messengers will be taken on oniy in numbers that can be absorbed into the higher grade*, audl it is; probable that a continually diminishing number of girls will be employed during the next four years. Wonwa postmen ave gradually being replaced by demobilised soldiers.