§ MR. ALFRED DAVIESI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if he has received a unanimous resolution passed at the annual meeting of the delegates of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, recommending that the State should provide a scheme of old age pensions, commencing at the age of sixty-five, of not less than 5s. per week, to persons who have been members of a thrift society for at least twenty years; and whether he can fall in with their desire.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI have received the document to which the hon. Gentleman refers. He can hardly expect me to make any announcement on the subject of old age pensions at the present moment.
§ MR. ALFRED DAVIESDoes the right hon. Gentleman wish me to convey that answer to a quarter of a million electors?
§ MR. A J. BALFOURI have conveyed it by giving the answer myself.