§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether his 1350 attention has been called to the fact that, whereas the men from the 24th Middlesex Post Office Volunteers, when on active service, draw soldiers' pay in addition to civil wages, obtain promotion, and have their military service counted towards civil pension, similar privileges have been denied to men in the postal telegraph service who joined the Royal Engineers upon their return from active service to their department; and whether he will consider the advisability of placing both classes of civil servants upon the same footing in this respect.
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,) Worcestershire, E.I regret that I have been unable to ascertain from the terms of the Question to whom exactly it is intended to apply. If the hon. and gallant Member will communicate with me privately upon the subject, I shall be happy to give him full information for publication.