§ Mr. NANNETTIasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture if volunteers had been called for from the Royal Engineers serving on the Ordnance Survey for training in one-inch revision work; whether there were already Civil assistants trained in this work available; and, if so, could he say why the services of these civilians were not utilised instead of going to the expense of training other men?
§ Sir E. STRACHEYIt is desirable for military purposes that a certain number of Royal Engineers should be well acquainted with survey work on the one-inch scale, It is for this reason that volunteers for training in that work have been called for. There is no intention of replacing any of the civilians at present employed on the work by Royal Engineers, so long as their services are available.