SIR TREVOR LAWRENCEasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether he has been furnished by the guardians of the Tenterden Union with reasons satisfactory to himself for their refusal to grant superannuation to Mr. Terry, late their medical officer, who is seventy-four years of ago, and incapacitated, after forty years' service?
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTHSir, I have been furnished by the Tenterden Guardians with their reasons for declining to grant a superannuation to Mr. Terry, their medical officer. I cannot say their reasons are satisfactory to me, because they are to the effect that the Guardians disapprove the principle of such super- 1012 animations, especially when the whole time of the officer has not been engaged in the public service, whereas the law expressly authorizes superannuations to be given tinder those circumstances. On the other hand, I am not prepared to say that the Guardians have failed to exercise a right judgment in this case without more information than I possess, because the real question would generally be, what proportion or relation the salary and public service of a medical officer has borne to his whole professional emolument and duties?