§ LORD PORTSEAasked if the marriage allowance given to ratings at the age of twenty is to be granted to naval officers at that age, and if such allowance is to be retrospective?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (EARL STANHOPE)The question whether some reduction should be made in the qualifying age for officers' marriage allowance is under consideration.
House adjourned at a quarter past seven o'clock.