§ CAPTAIN NORTON (Newington, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he can state if Indian Staff Corps officers are frequently promoted to higher rank without having passed the prescribed examination, whereas in the Case of officers serving in British regiments this rarely takes place; and whether he will consider the advisability of placing both classes of officers upon an equality in this respect?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingThe system of examination in the Indian Staff Corps differs materially from that which prevails in the British Army, inasmuch as there are in the Staff Corps no examinations for promotion from rank to rank, but only for the various regimental, staff, and departmental appointments. The comparison, therefore, which is implied in the honourable and gallant Member's Question cannot properly be made.