§ MR. JAMES O'CONNORTo ask the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the new system of paying naval and military pensions weekly to men in the employment of the, Post Office is inconvenient in many cases; and whether he will arrange that, where preferred, such pensions shall be paid quarterly as heretofore.
(Answered by Lord Stanley.) The system of paying naval and military pensions weekly with the Post Office employment wages was introduced on April 1st, 1900, on the recommendation of an Inter-departmental Committee, and is working s smoothly. I am satisfied that exceptions to the rule would not benefit either the pensioners or the Post Office.