§ MR. CLAVELL SALTER (Hants, Basingstoke)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he can now state how many battery sergeant-majors and battery quartermaster-sergeants will be affected by the Army Order, issued on the 11th March, which provides that continuance in the Service beyond twenty-one years of non-commissioned officers on the Home Establishment is to cease for the present.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) Nine battery sergeant-majors and nine battery quartermaster-sergeants will be affected by the Army Order in question.