§ MR. HEMPHILL (Tyrone, N.)To ask the Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been called to a memorial presented over three years ago on behalf of the officers of the Indian Medical Service in Civil employ in Burma, praying for the grant of compensation allowance for the extra expense of serving in that province, on the same footing as such allowance is made to the officers of the public works, telegraph, forest, and postal departments; and whether any steps are about to be taken to grant the prayer of such memorial.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) Officers of the Indian Medical Service in Civil employ in Burma were placed upon the same footing as officers in other departments in respect of local allowance in December, 1903.