Major NEWMANasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether the large quantities of rifles, equipment, and clothing now in stock, and for which no further use is at present visible, will be made available for the Imperial Cadet Force, who are at present without suitable rifles and are obliged to provide them serves with equipment and clothing at their own expense?
Captain GUESTNow that suitable rifles are available from Army stocks for Cadet units, every cadet is being provided with a rifle or carbine. Equipment and clothing are not issued free to Cadet units under Cadet Regulations, but the provisions of those Regulations which enable Cadet units to purchase or loan Government equipment, and which have been in abeyance during the War, will shortly be put m force again. Every effort is made to provide clothing cheap to Cadet units and to sell them at a low price part-worn clothing no longer required for military purposes. The whole Cadet movement as it stands will shortly come under review.