§ SIR HENRY CRAIKI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether a man of ninety-three years of age, whose only means of livelihood are 4s. 10d. a month from the Mariners' Club, to which he has subscribed nearly all his life, and 2s. 6d. a week of parish relief, is debarred from receiving any assistance under the Pensions Act.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSThe Answer appears to be in the affirmative. A person who has received ordinary poor relief since the 1st January last is disqualified for a pension by subsection (1) of Section 3 of the Act.
§ SIR HENRY CRAIKDoes the payment of that moderate sum in poor relief place this poor old man in a position of inequality as compared with the capitalists referred to in my last Question?
§ MR. JOHN BURNSAs at present, I am sorry to say it is so.