HC Deb 18 June 1883 vol 280 c790
LORD EUSTACE CECIL

asked the Surveyor General of the Ordnance, Whether the Government have any intention of granting to storeholders and foremen of the Ordnance Store Department at Woolwich, and other ports of embarkation, some compensation for the very unusual amount of overtime they were called upon to work during the preparation for the Campaign in Egypt, as well as for their arduous exertions in connection with the supply of stores when active operations had begun?

MR. BRAND

, in reply, said, he found that a similar Question to this had been previously put by the junior Member for Greenwich (Baron Henry De Worms) and answered by the Secretary of State for War.