31 and 32. Colonel THORNEasked the Minister of Labour (1) if the Labour Exchange officer at Warrington disallowed donation benefit to a young lady who was a Sunday-school teacher because she refused to undertake employment as a barmaid at the Lion Hotel, Warrington; if members of the Warrington Advisory Board and Court of Referees have entered an emphatic protest at donation benefit being refused to workpeople for trivial and insufficient reasons; and if he will make inquiries into the matter; and (2) if a discharged soldier suffering from gunshot wound in the leg, deafness, and other physical disabilities was asked by the official at the Warrington Labour Exchange on the 18th February to take on the sale of picture postcards at the local cinema for 3s. a night and 1s. in the £ commission on sales; that he refused this employment in consequence of having other temporary work and because the remuneration offered would not provide a living for his wife and three children; that subsequently his donation benefit was stopped by the Court of Referees; and if he will make inquiries into the matter with a view to restoration of the benefit?
§ Sir R. HORNEI will cause inquiries to be made into these cases. The result will be communicated to the hon. and gallant Member in due course.