§ 5. Colonel YATEasked the Secretary of State for India whether the bonus granted by Army Order 300 of the 18th August, 1919, to members of the Queen Alexandra Imperial Nursing Service and other nurses on British rates of pay has been extended to the Queen Alexandra Military Nursing Service for India and other ladies nursing in. Indian military hospitals on rupee rates of pay; and whether a sufficient number of temporary nurses have been recruited for service in India to permit of the relief of those regulars of the Indian Nursing Service who have been working in India and Mesopotamia continuously throughout the War, and owing to military requirements have been unable to obtain their long overdue furlough, and have lately been told that no hope can be held out that they can have furlough in the near future?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe answer to the first part of my hon. and gallant Friend's question is in the affirmative. The recent appointment of some 250 temporary nurses should be sufficient to enable the Indian Government to give relief to the permanent staff in the matter of leave.