§ MR. FIELDTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, seeing that three-fifths of the Old Colonial Audit Branch nominated officials passed no actual educational test examination on entry to the public service and possessed no academic qualifications of any kind he will explain how the Comptroller and Auditor-General satisfied himself as to the educational qualifications of these men; and why salaries, varying from £65 to £115 per annum in excess of those of their ex Second Division open-competition contemporaries and colleagues employed on the same duties, are now granted to such of these officials as return from unhealthy climates abroad.
(Answered by Mr. Hobhouse.) I have nothing to add to the previous replies in connection with these points.