HC Deb 19 July 1905 vol 149 cc1173-4
MR. CATHCART WASON (Orkney and Shetland)

On behalf of the hon.

Member for the Chesterfield Division of Derbyshire, I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether there was any salary attaching to the post of Press censor in South Africa during the Boer War; and, if so, will he state the amount, and say whether this was additional to the pay to which the officer holding this post was entitled on active service.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. ARNOLD-FORSTER, Belfast, W.)

The chief censor was graded as an I assistant adjutant - general on head-quarters staff and received £800 a year. Other officers employed on censorship duties were graded as deputy assistant adjutant - generals, receiving £1 1s. a day, or as staff captains, receiving 15s. a day, according to the nature of the duties they performed. There was no special rate of pay for censors.

MR. CATHCART WASON

Was this in addition to their pay as officers?

MR. ARNOLD-FORSTER

was understood to reply that those who were officers had also the pay of their rank.