§ Sir J. Wardlaw-Milneasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware of the resentment felt by certain people in country towns who have had civil servants compulsorily billeted upon them; what arrangements 1081W are being made to prevent hardship and unreasonable demands; and what right of appeal exists?
§ Captain CrookshankI have no reason to believe that there is any general unwillingness on the part of the inhabitants of the towns in question to play their part in the national effort, and I am satisfied that billetors are not being subjected to hardship or are having unreasonable demands made upon them.
As regards the last part of the question, any person who feels aggrieved by the serving of a billeting notice upon him has the right to appeal to local tribunals which have been set up for this purpose.