§ Sir E. GRAHAM-LITTLEasked the Financial Secretary to the War Office 569W whether, when the scales of remuneration for junior assistant metallurgists and for junior assistant chemists in the War Department establishments were introduced in 1925 and 1920, respectively, with the agreement of the out-station committee of the War Office Administrative Whitley Council, it was contemplated by his Department that those scales should be open at the initial salary to men up to the ages of 35 and 27, respectively; and whether it was contemplated that university honours degrees should be a condition of such appointments at an initial basic salary of £160 per annum?
§ Mr. COOPER:So far as can be traced, no particular upper age limits of entry for these appointments were in contemplation, and, in fact, it is not the usual practice to specify any age limits in advertisements for candidates for these posts. The answer to the last part of the question is in the affirmative.