§ LIEUT.-COLONEL PRYCE-JONES (Montgomery Boroughs)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, seeing that there are several Volunteer corps which must be re-clothed before their annual camp this year, and that it is therefore imperative that orders for their clothing should be, placed in, the hands of contractors without delay, and also that a new pattern uniform is still under consideration, can these corps now order their clothing without waiting indefinitely for the sealed pattern, or are they to invest in uniforms which will be obsolete in a few months, as one of these two courses must evidently be adopted unless the new pattern is now sealed.
§ MR. BRODRICKVolunteer commanding officers wishing for authority to change the uniform of their corps or 1300 adopt a working dress have but to comply with the Volunteer regulations and make application for Permission to do so, forwarding at the same time the pattern of articles proposed. The sealed patterns for the Regulars do not govern the uniform of Volunteer corps.