§ MR. RIDSDALE (Brighton)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies on what grounds a pension in respect of service on the Gold Coast, from which service he was invalided, has been refused to Mr. T. A. Ashman on his appointment to a tide-waitership in Jamaica at a much-reduced salary.
§ (Answered by Mr. Churchill.) Mr. Ashman was transferred without breach of continuity from the Gold Coast to Jamaica. Under the regulations the period of his service in the Gold Coast is pensionable, but he is not qualified to receive a pension in respect of that period until he retires from the Government service.