§ Lieut.-Colonel NALLasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether some 30 men of the Royal Irish Constabulary, Mechanical Transport, whose contracts for 12 months' service expired on or shortly after 8th December, 1921, were provisionally re-engaged for a further period; whether this extension was subsequently terminated; what payment in lieu of notice did these men receive; and was the day on which they travelled home reckoned for a day's pay?
§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREIt was decided on the 6th October, 1921, to discontinue the grant of second contracts for a further year's service to temporary constables in the Royal Irish Constabulary. After that date it was open to such temporary constables, on the completion of their first
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Period. Persons of 18 years of age and upwards. Persons of 12–17 years of age. Children under 12. Total. Males. Females. Males. Females. Emigrants. April—December, 1912 135,215 113,624 8,939 8,206 60,975 326,959 Year 1913 166,848 131,339 11,690 9,767 69,750 389,394 Year 1914 85,888 81,021 6,565 5,388 36,031 214,893 Year 1919 *47,147 *73,080 — — 26,108 146,935 Year 1920 106,911 117,468 8,071 7,931 44,721 285,102 Year 1921 73,205 81,522 6,257 6,032 32,461 199,477 January—September, 1922 *55,635 *51,623 — — 19,116 126,374 Immigrants. April—December, 1912 29,468 19,565 472 517 9,659 59,681 Year 1913 42,851 26,984 770 994 14,110 85,709 Year 1914 52,881 32,336 939 1,016 17,290 104,462 Year 1919 *34,485 *36,713 — — 21,825 93,023 Year 1920 31,695 33,565 1,289 1,560 17,946 86,055 Year 1921 28,792 27,323 1,153 1,283 12,816 71,367 January—September, 1922 *20,415 24,153 — — 10,226 54,794 * Persons of 12 years and upwards. Separate particulars of migrants of 12–17 years of age were not compiled for the year 1919 and are not yet available for the current year. NOTE.—Information distinguishing migrants from other passengers was uot furnished prior to 1st April, 1912. year's contract, to remain on in the force first on a monthly and subsequently on a weekly basis. A bounty of £25 was paid on the completion of the first year's service, and in cases where men elected to remain in the force on monthly or weekly contracts, a further bounty was paid on disbandment of £10, or so much of the bounty of £25 as might have accrued, whichever was the greater. They were discharged at the place of dispersal in Ireland, but were given free warrants to their homes.