Sir GILBERT PARKERasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can see his way to extending the war bonus to the senior men of the abstractor class in receipt of salaries of £150 to £200 per annum, in view of the increasing cost of living, and who have had no rise of any kind for a number of years?
Mr. McKINNON WOODI fear that it would not be practicable to give exceptional treatment, as suggested, to one particular category of employés in the Civil Service.