§ CAPTAIN CRAIG (Down, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware of the hardship caused to the wives of men belonging to those Militia battalions chosen for experimental long training; and whether separation allowances or any other grant will be made to assist them.
§ MR. HALDANENo representations of the nature referred to have reached me, and the case is not, in my opinion, one in which separation allowances or other grants of the kind would be appropriate.
§ CAPTAIN CRAIGIs it not a fact that the long training which has been undergone by some of the Militia battalions as an experiment has caused considerable hardships amongst the wives and families of the men? Cannot something be done to make their lot a little easier?
§ MR. HALDANEI believe not. The men who took the six months training were mostly young men, and had not been led into the meshes of matrimony.