§ 24. Colonel Sir H. GREENWOODasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why the wives and children of officers below the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the military forces of the Crown under his administration do not receive the extra allowance granted in 1917 to the wives and children of officers of the same rank in the forces under the War Office and under the India Office?
§ Mr. HEWINSOfficers of the King's African Rifles and the West African Frontier Force, to which forces I presume the hon. Member refers, are paid at special rates, the minimum pay of a subaltern being £300 a year. As these are consolidated rates, children's allowance is not given, but when officers of these forces are placed on British pay children's allowance is given.