§ 12. Major ARCHER-SHEEasked whether the Committee which was inquiring into the question of the retiring allowances for officers has finished its investigations; and, if so, whether any alteration of the Army Order 237 of 1911 has been decided upon, in the case of those officers whose retiring allowances were cut down from £300 a year to £200 a year by this Army order, notwithstanding the fact that when they joined the Service the pension of £300 a year was promised to them under the Regulations then in force?
§ Mr. H. BAKERI hope to be able to make an announcement on this subject before long; but I cannot admit that the pension of £300 a year was promised to the officers concerned under the Regulations in force when they joined, as the Royal Warrant in its preamble expressly reserved to them the rights only of their rank at the time of issue.