7. Sir J. D. REESasked the Secretary of State for India whether the wives of officers who are being sent home from India for demobilisation will be given as a rule, and excepting in cases of illness, a preference over other applicants for passages, in order that their husbands may not be put to the expense of maintaining them after their own departure from India?
§ Mr. FISHERArrangements already in operation for regulating the priority of passages for persons wishing to travel from India to this country provide for the special claims of the families of officers and men sent home from India on demobilisation.