EARL PERCYasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether it is the fact that a meat contractor has been selected in the Northern District to supply meat to the troops at Newcastle and Sunderland, and to the Third Battalion of 953 the Northumberland Fusiliers, after repeated complaints against him, and a request from the control officer that he should not be allowed to contract again for supplying the troops in the North?
§ MR. CHILDERSIn reply to the noble Earl, I have to state that there is no information on this subject in the War Office. But, having telegraphed to York, where these matters are managed, I find that the Commissariat officer of the district did not agree with the local officer at Newcastle in considering that the contractor's name should be struck off the list; but has warned him, and given him another chance.