§ MR. W. BENN (Tower Hamlets, St. George's)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether his attention has been directed to the case of George Day, 5,954 B, who from 1887 to 1896, and subsequently from 1897 to 1906, served in the Royal Naval Reserve, being discharged last year as medically unfit; and whether, in view of the fact that Day completed a term of twenty years' practically continuous service, he will say if he is entitled to a pension or gratuity.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) Under the regulations continuity of service is a necessary condition for the grant of a pension or gratuity, and, even if Day's service had been continuous, the period counting for pension or gratuity would be sixteen years as compared with the twenty years required.