§ Mr. J. P. FARRELLasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that No. 15301, Sapper Denis Fallen, 19th company, Royal Engineers, was discharged from the corps of Royal Engineers on the 10th December, 1908, and placed on the Reserve with a very good character, and as a skilled surveyor is now re-employed on the Ordnance Survey as a temporary assistant, but is promised employment only for two or three years; and will he see that this man's service as a temporary civil assistant will be further continued or his permanent employment be ordered?
§ Sir EDWARD STRACHEYMy right hon. Friend has asked me to reply to this question. Mr. Fallen, on receiving his discharge from the Royal Engineers in December last, asked to be re-employed on the Ordnance Survey as a temporary civil assistant. It was explained to him that it was not possible to employ him for more than two or three years, and on this understanding he accepted the offer. Owing to the fact that some of the survey work is182W approaching completion, no undertaking can be given that his employment will be continued for a longer period.