CAPTAIN FABERTo ask the Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that garrison companies of Auxiliary Forces, Royal Artillery, have, since the 1st of April, become Field Artillery, the permanent staff, such as sergeant-majors, will now receive the same pay as squadron sergeant-majors of Yeomanry; and, if not, whether, looking at the responsible duties of Field Artillery sergeant-majors in connection with field guns, small stores, harness, and rifles, he can see his way to equalising the pay.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.)
The acting sergeant major of a Field Artillery Brigade will get 4s. 3d. a day as against 4s. 4d. paid to a Yeomanry staff-sergeant-major. There is, however, no intention of making cavalry and artillery rates of pay uniform in the Territorial Force any more than they are in the Regular Army.
| Item. | Page | |||
| £ | ||||
| Non-effective, Class VI., | 1 | 400 | 481 | (Civil Services) |
| Post Office: | ||||
| Sub-head: A, 8 | £100 | 93 | (Revenue Departments) | |
| Sub-head: C, 5 | £1,400 | 100 | (Revenue Departments) | |
| Sub-head: G, 6 | £20 | 110 | (Revenue Departments) | |
| 1,520 | ||||
| Post Office (Savings Banks) | 3,400 | 106 | (Revenue Departments) | |
| Telegraph Wires, &c.: | ||||
| Sub-head P, 5 | £5,700 | 126 | (Revenue Departments) | |
| Sub-head T, 3 | £1,150 | 130 | (Revenue Departments) | |
| 6,850 | ||||
| Total | 12,170 |