§ MR. W. J. CORBETasked the Secretary of State for War, with reference to the subject of equalising the rates of pay of the Educational Staff of the Royal Hibernian Military School, Dublin, with those of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, If he is aware that the inter- 659 pretation put upon paragraph 489 of the Royal Warrant of 10th June 1884 is that the past services of the Staff of the Royal Hibernian Military School shall be ignored, and the new scale of remuneration take effect only from the present year; whether he is aware that each member of the existing Staff has completed more than the prescribed term to entitle him to the maximum rate of pay sanctioned by the Warrant; and, whether he is aware that the head master, after a service of thirty-nine years, has been given £60 per annum less than is laid down in the new scale, and the second and third masters only the initial rates, though they have served seventeen and fourteen years respectively; and, if he will take steps to have this grievance removed?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONEach of the masters referred to has had a substantial advance of pay, and the Regulations of the Treasury preclude the grant of more than the minimum rate allotted to an appointment by a new Warrant when that rate is in excess of the salary or pay previously held.