HC Deb 06 July 1896 vol 42 c784
MR. BILL

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether Officers stationed on the West Coast of Africa may for the future be allowed to take their ordinary annual leave of 61 days in the Canary Islands or Madeira without loss of pay and without destroying that continuity of West African service which entitles them to their leave in England?

*THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, Guildford

I am glad to be able to inform my hon. Friend, who has personally interested himself in this question, that the regulation is about to be altered in the direction indicated in his Question.