§ 65. Colonel YATEasked the Secretary of State for War whether, considering that the gratuities given to officers of the rank of lieutenant-colonel, brigadier-general, and major-general for the South African War, which lasted two years, were more than the maximum gratuities that can be drawn by any officer of those ranks after five years' service overseas in the present War, he will represent the unfairness of the present scale of gratuities to His Majesty's Government and ask for reconsideration, of the matter and the issue of a revised Warrant.
§ Mr. FORSTERThe rates of gratuity were fixed by His Majesty's Government with full knowledge and after careful consideration of the rates paid after the South African War, and I regret that I am unable to entertain my hon. and gallant Friend's suggestion on the strength of this comparison.
§ Colonel YATEWill the right hon. Gentleman consider the question on its merits, and does he not see how utterly inadequate the present gratuities are?
§ Mr. FORSTERThat is a matter of opinion.