§ Mr. CHIOZZA MONEYasked the Secretary to the Treasury, with reference to his statement that it is the practice of the Treasury to count towards' pension so much of temporary service as is similar in character to the established service following, and in view of the fact that the cases of some Customs employés have been dealt with accordingly, if he will see that the cases of the clerks and assistant clerks in the Customs Department whose temporary service was similar in character to the established service following are also dealt with in accordance with this principle?
The HON. MEMBERfuther asked on what grounds Mr. Buxton, late an abstractor in the Statistical Department of the Customs, who was superannuated on 17th December, 1907, after 25 years' service, was not allowed to count his entire un-established service for pension, seeing that he was doing in his established capacity precisely the same class of work as he was doing in his unestablished capacity, of which class of work the secretary to the Board of Customs, in his Report to the Ridley Royal Commission, stated that there was no difference between the work performed by them and that done by the lower division of clerks?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEI beg to refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my predecessor to the hon. Member for Woolwich on 26th March, 1906.