§ Mr. NANNETTIasked the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether, seeing that the staff of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland represents over 40 per cent, of the total staff of the United Kingdom, he will say why only two members of the staff are on the President's list for the higher rates of pay out of a total of eighteen?
§ Sir E. STRACHEYThe disparity is due to the fact that the more important 1715W posts which give the holders precedence for promotion to the President's list are held by assistants serving elsewhere than in Ireland. In most undertakings the responsibility falls on the personnel at headquarters, and naturally where responsibility falls remuneration follows, and this is the case on the Ordnance Survey of the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. NANNETTIasked the hon. Member for South Somerset if he will explain why, if the Act of Geo. 4, c. 99, has been repealed, it is still quoted on the surveyors' appointments at present in use in Ireland; and will he quote the Act repealing same?
§ Sir E. STRACHEYThe Act of Geo. 4, c. 99, is not quoted on the surveyors' appointments at present issued for use in Ireland. The Act referred to was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1873.