§ SIR JOHN HAYasked the Secretary to the Admiralty, If he would state whether Coastguard Boatmen of good character whose pay was less than £120 a year, and who were compelled to retire because of the reorganisation of their department and abolition of office, are or are not equally entitled to compensation for loss of office under the Superannuation Act of 1859 with the higher paid servants of the same department?
§ MR. TREVELYAN, in reply, said, the Treasury had always laid down a distinction between public servants paid by salary and those paid by daily wages. They granted compensation on the abolition of office to the salaried class, and not to those who were paid by daily wages. He did not think there was the slightest 27 chance that the Treasury would reconsider their policy, for which, he thought, there were good and obvious reasons.