§ SIR HENRY HAVELOCKasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether, referring to a Question put by him early in last Session as to grievances of officers of Commissariat and Transport Departments, and the Secretary of State's reply thereto that the same could not be considered until a Committee then sitting upon a scheme for the re-organization of the Department had reported, whether any steps have been taken to redress the grievances complained of; and, if not, whether, looking to the fact that the majority of the appeals of officers have lain at the War Office for about twelve months, he will take early steps to redress those grievances, and thus put an end to a state of affairs disheartening to the officers?
MR. GATHORNE HARDY, in reply, said, that he expected in a few days to have the Report of a Committee on the organization of the department in his hands, and that he would give the subject his earliest possible consideration. At the same time, he might state that until the Surveyor General of Ordnance, who presided over that department, was back from his illness he (Mr. Hardy) would be unable to consider the matter fully.