§ 64. Mr. LOGANasked the Minister of Health the present position of the Merchant Seamen's Fund, and the number of persons in receipt of pension?
Sir H. YOUNGI am informed that the income of the Royal Seamen's Pension Fund for the year ended 31st December, 1930, from contributions under the National Health Insurance and Unemployment Insurance Acts and from interest, amounted to £130,409, while the expenditure of the fund by way of pensions and grants for that year amounted to £02,228. 7,523 pensions were in payment from the fund on 1st January of this year.