§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether, having regard to the increased importance of the Army Veterinary Department, which in South Africa alone is responsible for some 150,000 animals, valued at about £4,000,000, and seeing the unsatisfactory state of the Department, coupled with the fact that the proposed changes have been long under consideration, he will, pending prospective reforms, at one grant to the officers of the Department Military titles without prefix, which step has given such general satisfaction throughout the Army Medical Department, and has attracted to that Department a larger number of excellent students from the medical schools than heretofore.
§ *MR. WYNDHAMThe whole question of the status of the Army Veterinary Department is under consideration, and a decision will shortly be given.