§ 6. Brigadier-General CROFTasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether Civil servants of military age who 149 are exempted from military service will have to give an undertaking that they will join the Volunteers?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI think that nothing would be gained by making exemption of a Civil servant conditional upon an undertaking to join the Volunteers. The number of Civil servants now being retained is so small a proportion of the establishments of the Departments to which they belong and the work is so heavy that they could not discharge further liabilities to public service. There is, of course, no objection to their serving voluntarily where their work admits of it.