§ MAJOR ARBUTHNOTasked the Surveyor General of Ordnance, To what extent the Control will obtain assistance from the Royal Artillery on the occasion of the contemplated Autumn Manœuvres; whether assistance will be obtained from any other part of the Army; and, whether it is intended that the men so borrowed shall be under the command of the Controller or other representative of the Department? He also wished to put this supplementary question, whether it was to be understood that no driver who had not passed his drill should drive or have charge of a pair of horses, in conformity with the precedent afforded in the case of the 4th and 15th Regiments, in which men not dismissed from drill were not allowed to march to Wimbledon with their regiments?
§ SIR HENRY STORKSThe Royal Artillery have lent 400 drivers from the depot as auxiliary drivers for Army Service Corps during the Autumn Manœuvres, and they will also afford assistance in performing local transport duties in some garrisons. No other assistance will be required. The men lent as auxiliaries will be under the command of their own corps officers, who will hold the transport at the disposal of the Controller. With reference to the supplementary question, I decline to answer it without Notice.