§ Mr. COOTEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War why Sergeant John Adams, North Irish Horse, Antrim, who has served for the stipulated period of eight years and a year extra owing to the War, will not be permitted to return home to assist his widowed mother in the management and working of a farm of fifty acres; is he aware that Sergeant Adams' father died in January, 1916; that at the time of his death his two sons and son-in-law, who constituted the entire male portion of his family, were serving with His Majesty's forces; that since then his aged mother, who is in feeble health, has been left alone to manage her farm; and, considering the necessity for food production and the fact that this man has served his country, and that there are hundreds of homes in Ireland with many sons from amongst whom no one has been taken, will he order this man's discharge, or at least transfer his services to his mother's farm for the seeding down of the land?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThis man was transferred to the Reserve on 3rd January, 1917, and is available for his mother's farm.