§ Mr. GEORGE TERRELLasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether medical officers who have withdrawn from the Service previous to the War and had received a gratuity on the scale laid down in the regulations now have deductions made on their pay as representing interest on the amount of such gratuity; and whether, in the absence of any authority for the making of such deductions, he will give instructions that all such officers are to receive their pay in full?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAIt is a long established rule in the Navy that an officer in receipt of an annual retiring allowance should cease to draw that allowance on becoming entitled to full pay, etc., during re-employment, whether in peace or war. The same principle is applied to officers who received their retiring or withdrawing 203W allowance in a lump sum, and an amount representing the annual value of this gratuity is accordingly abated from their active service emoluments.