§ MR. YOXALL (Nottingham, W.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Minute of 30th July, 1903, as to retirement at the age of sixty-five, is still operative; if so, whether my Lords are Bill of opinion that in the case of civil servants on smaller salaries every consideration consistent with the efficiency of the service should be shown; and whether the recent application of the Registrar-General of England for an extension in the case of John M. Millner, an abstractor, has been dealt with in accordance with this clause of the Treasury Minute.
(Answered by MR. Victor Cavendish.) The paragraph referred to was not intended to be of general application, but to meet a limited class of cases of hardship which arose immediately on the passing of the Order in Council of 29th November, 1898, and which are now not likely to recur.