§ MR. BYLES (Salford, N.)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether Mrs. Anne Kerry, the widow of a soldier killed at Inkerman, who has lately been deprived of her Patriotic Fund pension of 10s. a week and sent into hospital at the Loughrea workhouse, cannot be removed to some more congenial hospital and have her pension restored to her; and whether the remaining resources of the Royal Patriotic Fund expressly and generously subscribed half a century ago for her and other widows of Crimean soldiers, do not entitle this lady in her great age and infirmity to more considerate treatment.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) The facts of this case, as represented to me by the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation, were fully explained in an Answer given on my behalf on Monday last by my hon. friend the Secretary to the Local Government Board to the hon. Member for South Galway.† I have nothing to add to that reply.