§ 57. Mr. Messerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will devise some means whereby old age pensioners who have the misfortune to lose their book of tobacco tokens can have it replaced with the least possible delay.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterThough I have much sympathy with the suggestion in this Question, I am afraid that careful consideration of the problem has made it only too clear that any scheme enabling lost books to be replaced would involve such disadvantages to the vast majority of pensioners as to make it impracticable.