§ 84. Mr. ANDERSONasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office why it took his Department six months to decide whether certain women engaged as sewing hands and temporarily employed as cooks at His Majesty's Gunwharf and Hilsea Lines, Portsmouth, were entitled to a war bonus of 2s. 6d. per week; and whether he has yet decided the date from which this award is to be granted?
§ Mr. FORSTERThe delay was due to a misunderstanding of the instructions originally given. Fresh instructions have now been issued on the subject. The bonus dates from 13th August, 1917.