MR. MACDONALD CAMERON (Wick)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether it is intended that paymaster sergeants and orderly room sergeants serving with Militia on army engagements, and who have attained the highest non-commissioned rank, are to be deprived of such rank in order to become assistants to paymaster sergeants and orderly room sergeants of regimental depots, who are in almost every case junior to the former by service, rank, and clerical experience; and whether it is in contemplation at once to discharge such members of the permanent staff of Militia with the rate of pension to which they would be entitled on attaining the age for compulsory retirement?
§ *MR. E. STANHOPEThere is no intention of altering the status of paymaster-sergeants or orderly-room sergeants appointed to the permanent staff of the Militia before the 1st of March 1888, and therefore it is unnecessary to discharge, for that reason, any of them. Those appointed after that date will be styled assistant paymaster-sergeants and assistant orderly-room sergeants.