§ 8. Sir BERTRAM FALLEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he will extend to naval pensioners the privilege now enjoyed by dockyard pensioners of having their pensions paid into a bank?
Sir B. EYRES MONSELLThe Board of Admiralty are not satisfied that the majority of naval pensioners would regard it as a privilege to have their pensions paid into a bank instead of through the Post Office as at present, and the cost of a dual system of payment could not be justified. The dockyard pensioners themselves evidently do not all regard payment through a hank as being a privilege, for at this very moment the Admiralty have under consideration a request that they may be paid through the Post Office.