§ MR. KEARLEY (Devonport)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether W. P. Elston, late a smith in Devonport Dockyard, was correctly pensioned in February, 1878, his pension being computed upon a basis of the wages he was in receipt of five years prior to that date; or whether, in accordance with the terms of the Superannuation Act of 1859, he should have been pensioned upon the basis of his average emoluments of the three years preceding his discharge to pension; and whether a communication on the subject has been received by the Treasury from the Admiralty?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTElston's pension was properly calculated on the established rate of wages of the class in which he was serving at the date of his retirement in 1878. In the previous year he had returned from temporary employment at the Cape, for which he had received higher pay, but temporary emoluments are not included in the calculation of pension under the Superannuation Acts. A communication has been received by the Treasury from the Admiralty on the subject.