... salary without tho special sanction of the Secretary State, unless bo a of tho Covenanted Civil Service or of tho Staff Corps. Any native can enter the Covenanted Civil Service by the highroad competition, but natives find it difficult to compete in England ...

... choose for economy between expenditure on works which were absolutely necessary for the security of the empire and that on civil buildings, roads, &c, they were bound to take the latter rather than resort to extra taxation. (Hear, hear.) We did not want ...