§ Lord ELCHOasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether Volunteers, who are employed in Government Offices, will be allowed to accompany their regiments and take part in the coming Easter Monday Field Day without loss of pay or the curtailment of their annual leave?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHI am not able to promise that all Volunteers employed in Government Offices will be allowed to accompany their regiments on Easter Monday. Some of the public Offices must remain open on that day, and it may be impossible to dispense with the attendance of a particular clerk or writer who happens to be a Volunteer. But I may take this opportunity of expressing a hope that the Heads of Departments will, wherever possible, give leave of absence to Volunteers wishing to take part in the manoeuvres, and that they will not think it necessary to make any deduction in consequence from their pay or annual leave.