Mr. JAMES O CONNORasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether, seeing that the service of a telegraph learner is counted for pension from the age of 16, whilst the service of a boy sorter who was a postal learner is, irrespective of age, ignored for such a purpose, he will state the circumstances under which the Treasury differentiated between the telegraph and postal services in this matter?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEService as boy sorter is not counted for pension because the regulations under which this class was recruited expressly stated that such service, in common with service in other boy classes such as boy clerk and boy messenger, would not be included as pensionable service. In the case of the boy telegraphists no such stipulation was made.