§ Mr. WATTasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he is aware that when the £15 bounty becomes due to a soldier serving in France or on one of the other fronts the major portion of this money, and, in sumo instances, the whole of it, is retained by the paymaster, and the soldier is orally informed that interest will be -added and the whole paid on discharge; and, seeing that no receipt or document of any kind is given to the soldier, and that it the case of his death his relatives would be in ignorance of its existence, will he arrange for some receipt to be given?
§ Mr. FORSTERThe terms as regards deferred payment of this bounty form part of the conditions of the grant of the bounty originally announced. Formal record of the award of the bounty is made both in the man's documents in the regimental 1771W record office and in the man's account in the pay office. Adequate record, therefore, exists to secure that the man, or his estate, ultimately receives the amount due.