§ ADMIRAL FIELD (Sussex, Eastbourne)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty will consider the case of the daughters of Naval Warrant Officers, with a view to their being considered eligible for compassionate allowances when left in distressing circumstances consequent upon the death of their parents, in like manner as provided for daughters of Commissioned Officers of same relative rank in the Navy and Army, seeing that the principle has been already conceded in the case of daughters of Warrant Officers who are killed in action, or whose death has been caused or hastened by exposure on duty, &c.; and whether existing regulations can be modified to meet their claims to be placed on a footing of equality in this respect with the daughters of other officers whose widows are entitled to pensions?
§ LORD G. HAMILTONThe alteration in the Army Regulations on this subject has been recently brought to the notice of the Admiralty, and the question of any Amendment in the existing Naval Regulations will be taken into consideration. Similarity of practice in the two Services may be desirable, but the conditions generally of Naval Service, so far as pensions and allowances are concerned, are more liberal than in the Military Service.