§ Sir JOHN BETHELLasked the First Lord of the Treasury if he will state upon 482W what grounds he refuses to grant Clemente Auguste Lepelley, late lineman in the engineering department of the General Post Office, the full pension to which he is entitled under the Post Office Telegraph Act, 1897 (60 and 61 Vic, c. 41), seeing that the said Clemente Auguste Lepelley had served twenty-seven years with the Submarine Telegraph Company prior to its absorption toy the State in April, 1889, and who is apparently the only servant so taken over who has been refused the period served in the Submarine Telegraph Company to count for pension purposes?
Mr. McKINNON WOODLepelley has been granted the full pension for which he is qualified. He is not entitled to reckon his service with the Submarine Telegraph Company for pension under Section 3 of the Post Office and Telegraph Act, 1897, seeing that he did not on 1st April, 1889, enter the permanent civil service of the State in an established capacity.