§ MR. NUSSEY (Pontefract)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether the troops billeted or quartered at Wakefield during the late labour dis- 1099 putes were paid for by the Government to the local innkeepers at a rate higher than the statutory payments made for billetting on the ground that it was a large and unusual burden upon such innkeepers; and whether the same rule will be applied to Pontefract, where the innkeepers had a similar burden cast upon them; and, if not, upon what ground a difference is made?
§ * MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThe local Military Authorities paid the innkeepers at Wakefield in regard to troops billeted there at the highest rate allowed by the Army Act for more days than the Regulations are held to justify. This was a mistake, and it was discovered before payment at Pontefract was made.