§ COLONEL SADLER (Middlesbrough)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will consider the desirability of supplying Volunteers with gratuitous ammunition to encourage private shooting practice.
§ MR. BRODRICKArtillery and engineer corps are supplied with twenty rounds per man and are not required to fire a compulsory course of musketry. Infantry corps are supplied with ninety rounds, out of which a recruit is obliged to fire forty-nine rounds and a trained Volunteer forty-two, leaving the remainder for private practices, etc. An additional ten rounds may be purchased at £4 per 1,000, and any further supply at £5 per 1,000. The question of whether any further supply is necessary is being considered.