§ Sir ALEXANDER GORDONasked the Surveyor General of Ordnance, Whether a report in one of the public newspapers is correct, that the Government intend to abandon the practice of issuing grocery rations to the troops at Aldershot and other large stations at home and abroad; and, if so, whether the discontinuance of the practice will not seriously interfere with the facility for supplying grocery rations to an army in the field during war, one of the objects for which the system was established?
§ LORD EUSTACE CECILSir, on the recommendation of the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, the practice of issuing grocery rations by the Government is about to be discontinued. As regards the second part of the Question, it is not anticipated that increased difficulty will occur in supplying field rations to an army in the field.
§ Sir ALEXANDER GORDONgave Notice that on a future occasion he would call attention to the subject.