SIR THOMAS ESMONDS (Wexford, N.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, before replying to the Question put on August l5th last, † he was made aware that the calculation asked for in the cases of the three abstractor clerks
† See (4) Debates, cxl., 559.583 superannuated from the War Office at the respective ages of 60, 62, and 60, had been made by that office, and showed that £564 was the actual minimum loss that must be sustained by one of these clerks, owing to his being compulsorily I retired at 60 years of age while efficient and with less than 40 years of service; and whether, in view of the pension of £69 per annum granted to a clerk compulsorily retired in 1897 owing to acute incapacity, he will cause an open official inquiry into the treatment of the efficient clerks selected for beneficial promotion from temporary copyists, through which the State has so materially gained in money.(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) I regret I am unable to add to the ample information which has already been given to the hon. Baronet on this subject.