5. Mr. CATHCART WASONasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he is aware of the fact that a professional gardener, named Hamilton, was recruited for home service, Class C 2, was sent as a bricklayer's assistant to Bristol, then to serve as an assistant dresser, and then to munition works at Avon-mouth; and whether, in view of the importance of keeping up an adequate food supply and that the director of the Horticultural Board has applied for his release and that the directors of the agricultural section of the National Service Board have done everything in their power to restore Mr. Hamilton to his former service and could easily find a substitute for him, he will order Hamilton to be sent back to his work for at least six months, when so much is necessary in gardens?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONIt would appear that this man is enrolled as an Army Reserve munition worker and was placed in his present employment through the Labour Exchange. The question as to 748 whether it is desirable to remove him from his present employment would appear, therefore, to be a matter for my right hon. Friend the Minister of Munitions and not for the military authorities.