§ Lieut.-Colonel NALLasked the Under-Secretary of State for War? whether certain officers and depots for militia units are still maintained; and what is the Government's intention in regard to the militia?
Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESSThe Infantry Depots perform the combined functions of training regular and militia recruits and of providing a nucleus for militia battalions during their annual training and for mobilisation. The establishment of Infantry Depots is now under consideration in conjunction with the question of the future of the militia, as to which I am not at present in a position to make a statement. In the meantime,710W in view of the abnormally large number of regular recruits taken since the end of the War, the depots have been retained approximately at their pre-War establishment of 98 all ranks.