§ 15. Mr. ROWLANDSasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether preference will be given to the soldiers unfit for further active service in the clerical work of the War Department before taking the physically unfit for active military service from civil employment?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. Tennant)Ex-soldiers are, as far as possible, employed on the work of the War Office in preference to civilians. No civilians within the limits of the recruitable ages are being taken on as clerks.