§ Mr. BURGOYNEasked the Secretary of State for War if he will state the necessary qualifications for an assistant adjutancy in the Cavalry; and whether all the assistant adjutants possess these qualifications?
§ Mr. HALDANEThe regulations provide that an assistant adjutant should be a subaltern officer qualified at a School of Musketry. The appointment is made by the Commanding Officer, and the War Office has no information concerning the qualification of the officer so appointed. Circumstances might conceivably arise in which it might be necessary to appoint an officer who, while suitable in all other respects, had not had the opportunity of becoming qualified at a school of musketry.
§ Mr. BURGOYNEasked whether the assistant adjutant of a regiment of the 1st Cavalry Brigade was away on leave during the annual musketry course of his regiment; if so, whether he continued to draw the extra pay attaching to his appointment; and, if not, who did draw it?
§ Mr. HALDANEMatters of this sort are in the hands of the local military authorities, with whose discretion I do not propose to interfere. I cannot undertake to inquire into individual cases of leave granted to junior officers.