§ MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether he will state how many of the forty-eight field superintendents serving in. the Ordnance Survey, Ireland, are effective soldiers, how many are ex-soldiers of the Royal Engineers, and how many are civilians who have never served in the Army; and if he will state the service of each of the superintendents, showing the service of the surveyors and labourers working under their orders.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) Thirty-three of the field superintendents are effective soldiers, four ex-soldiers, and eleven civilians. The service of these men ranges from seven to thirty-eight years, and that of the men under them from one month to thirty-six years. The information for which my hon. friend asks in the latter part of his Question would entail a reference to the records of nearly 500 men, and the Board regret that they do not see their way to supply it.