§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is aware that the pensioners of Chelsea Hospital are largely rationed upon foreign refrigerated meat; and, whether this regulation will be reconsidered and rescinded with a view to provide these worn-out 1299 veterans with nutritious home-grown beef and mutton?
THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Mr. POWELL-WILLIAMS,) Birmingham S.No, Sir. The meat supplied to the in-pensioners is required, under the contract, to be English beef and mutton.