§ Mr. ELLIS GRIFFITH (Anglesey)I bog to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the fact that civil medical officers in South Africa do not get colonial allowance, though such allowance is allowed to every other person now serving in the British Army in South Africa; and whether he will take steps to remedy this state of affairs.
Mr. J. POWELL—WILLIAMS (for Mr. WYNDHAM)The civil medical practitioners engaged for service in South Africa are paid according to the special terms for which they engaged—namely, pay at £1 a day, field allowance at 3s. 6d. a day, servant's allowance, Government horse with forage, and field rations while in the field, with a gratuity of two months pay at the expiration of their contract. They accordingly receive higher emoluments than many of the officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps. The Secretary of State for War sees no reason for making any addition to their emoluments.