§ Major YERBURGHasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that regular officers of field rank compulsorily retired from the Army owing to reduction of establishment find considerable difficulty in obtaining other employment owing to their age; seeing that there are not many appointments in or connected with Government Departments, particularly the Colonial Office, where a military training is of considerable value, 2949W but from which these officers are debarred by reason of the entry age limit, he will consider the waiving of the age limit in the cases of such of these officers who may be otherwise suitable, in a manner analogous to the system governing the absorption of permanent civil servants rendered surplus to establishment?
§ Mr. BALDWINI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to my answer to the hon. and gallant Member for Lewisham on Monday last, of which I am sending him a copy.