Mr. Herbert Samuel, the Postmaster-General, who has returned to England
after a two months' visit to Canada and the United States, related his impressions to a corre- spondent of the Times at Fishguard on Monday. He had undertaken the journey in order to confer with the Post- masters-General of Canada and the United States on a number of outstanding points connected with his department and to examine the telephone systems of both countries. At Washington he discussed with the United States officials the Government administration of telegraphs and telephones, at New York he met the managers of the great cable companies, and in Canada, where he spent six weeks, his attention was called to the public feeling in favour of the speedy construc- tion of a State-owned Atlantic cable as a work of the first Imperial importance. Incidentally Mr. Samuel noted the result of the policy adopted some years ago, both in Canada and the United States, of paying the same wages to women as to men—viz., that no more women have been taken into the service. "The Post Office in Canada is almost closed as an avenue for the employment of women, and in the United States it is open to them only to a very moderate extent."
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