§ GENERAL LAURIEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can inform the House whether the offers of 110 commissions in the Army to the Australian Colonies and 44 to the Dominion of Canada are intended as a recognition of the services rendered to the Empire in South Africa by the Australasian and Canadian troops; and whether it is intended to increase the number of commissions to be offered to Canada so that the people of the Dominion may be afforded, in proportion to population, the same opportunity of rendering military service to the Empire as is to be afforded to their fellow subjects in Australasia.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe numbers of commissions are approximately as stated in the question. If all the commissions offered to Canada are filled, the Secretary of State will be quite ready to consider a further offer.