§ Mr. STURROCKasked the Postmaster-General whether the Law Officers of the Crown were consulted before it was decided to compulsorily deduct 5s. per week from the wages of Postman Anderson, Arbroath, in order to refund a sum of £96 paid in error to this ex-soldier's mother while he was on foreign service; and whether it has been found that in law a soldier son absent from home is liable for the mistake of an official and liable for a debt properly to be debited to his mother?
Mr. ILLINGWORTAI have not consulted the Law Officers of the Crown in this matter, and I do not consider that any legal question has arisen on which their opinion is required.