§ MR. O. V. MORGAN (Battersea)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether the men in the Metropolitan Fire Brigade will, as in the case of the Metropolitan Police, receive any special gratuity for their extraordinary services during the Jubilee week?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)I am informed by the Metropolitan Board of Works that the men of the Brigade were kept at their stations for two or three days in the week of the Jubilee; but, happily, no fire of unusual magnitude occurred. There was not, therefore, as in the case of the police, any call for such extra exertions on the part of the firemen as to justify a special gratuity being given to them.