§ 86. Mr. RUPERT GWYNNEasked the Under-Secretary for War if local traders living in districts where military camps are formed or in course of formation can be given an opportunity, through the ordinary system of contracts, of supplying troops quartered there with meat, bread, and forage, which is now sent direct from the Government supply depots?
§ Mr. H. BAKERThis is already allowed as far as is possible. But the necessity of turning over the large reserves held in the supply depots limits the use which can be made of local supply.