§ Colonel IVOR PHILIPPSasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture when the President of the Board of Agriculture expects to be in a position to give a reply to the petition of the twenty-seven artificers of the Ordnance Survey-Department, who asked permission to be-included in the contributory pension-scheme recently authorised for the civil assistants of the Ordnance survey.
§ Sir E. STRACHEY:The matter is under the consideration of the Treasury. We hope to be in a position shortly to reply to the petition.