§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state the number of Customs watchers employed in the port of London, and the 373 number of these who are in receipt of pensions from either the Army or Navy?
§ MR. HANBURYThe number of Customs watchers at present employed in this port of London is 357, and of these, 149 are in receipt of pensions from either the Army or Navy (Army 99, Navy 50). Of this total number (357), however, only 103 represent the watchers who have been appointed directly to the class since it was instituted. The others came into the class from lists of permanent labourers and casual extra-men which were not, as is now the case with watchers, exclusively recruited from Army, Navy, or other pensioners.