§ CAPTAIN NORTON (Newington, W.)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is aware that, owing to the fact that it takes about three minutes for the men working in the Royal Army Clothing Department to enter and leave the Department, thereby causing an actual loss of about six minutes to the men at dinner time, the authorities have recently been obliged to open a second gate on the south side; and whether he will consider the advisability of opening the north gate instead of a second gate on the south side in the interest of the men living in the direction of the north gate entrance.
LORD STANLEYThe north gate is reserved for the female workers. The present arrangement is undoubtedly the best, and I have no intention of interfering with it.