§ MR. RADCLIFFE COOKE (Hereford)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether, in the case of Volunteer battalions with an establishment of ten companies in localities where it is not desired to raise a second battalion, but where such battalions supply each a full bearer company of sixty-four to their brigade, it would be permissible for them to recruit past their establishment so that the bearer companies be supernumerary to the present establishment; and whether the establishment in ten company battalions will be raised, so as to include a 581 mounted infantry company; or whether such company can be recruited supernumerary to the present establishment.
MR. J. POWELL-WILLIAMS (for Mr. WYNDHAM)An application to form an extra company will receive consideration. The question of allowing a mounted infantry company to be formed is being considered.