§ COLONEL DALBIAC (Camberwell, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, if he is aware that in many instances the terms of the Treasury Minute (Order Book 189A, Reg. No. 171,074), dated 4th June 1894, relating to sick pay, have been abrogated in the cases of several officers within the London Postal District, who have been called upon to resign, or retire on pension, for a far less period of sick leave than is authorised in the Minute in question?
§ * MR. HANBURYThe terms of the Treasury Minute fix certain limits beyond which sick pay cannot be granted—namely, six months with full pay and six months with half pay; but the Minute says that no sick leave at all is to be given unless there is a reasonable hope of recovery. In the cases where men have been called upon to retire before they had been allowed the maximum amount of sick leave with pay, they had been certified to be unfit for further duty.