§ MR. F. H. EVANS (Southampton)I beg to ask the President of the Board 1671 of Agriculture whether the officers, non-commissioned officers, and sappers of the Royal Engineers, employed on the Ordnance Survey, received in addition to their military pay their survey working pay during their attendance at drill and field operations on Southampton Common last season; and, if so, whether the same privilege will be afforded to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Volunteer Corps employed on the Ordnance Survey attending camps under the mobilisation scheme?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. CHAPLIN,) Lincolnshire, SleafordThe officers, non-commissioned officers, and sappers of the Royal Engineers received, in addition to their military pay, their survey working pay during their attendance at drill and at the short practical course of engineering which was carried out on Southampton Common last season, in conformity with the requirements of the War Office. I am very glad to know that some of the civil assistants employed on the survey enrol themselves as Volunteers, but the ordinary conditions of Volunteer service must apply in such cases, and I am afraid that the men cannot be allowed pay in respect of their attendance at camps under the mobilisation scheme.