§ MR. HAYDAYasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that Mr. H. C. Brookbank, late counter clerk and telegraphist, London postal service, entered the Post Office service as a postman at Ealing in 1879; that he passed a Civil Service examination in 1881; that he served as head postal clerk at Ealing from 1884 until 1889, when he became a counter clerk and telegraphist in the North-Western district; that his service from 1879 is unbroken; and that as a result of representations the Lords of the Treasury have decided to increase the period of service counted for pension from twenty-nine to thirty-two years; and whether, seeing that Mr. Brook-bank's service for the. Post Office was of a pensionable character, and in view of the amount of his pension having regard to the length of service, he will consider the possibility of counting the whole of such service for pensionable purposes?
§ Mr. BALDWINIt is understood that Mr. Brookbank was not continuously employed on full-time postman's duties until 1881 when he was appointed to a pensionable post. He resigned this appointment in. 1884 in order to take up an unpensionable post in the personal employment of a sub-postmaster. The period of thirty-two years pensionable service on which his pension has now been assessed is the maximum reckonable under the Treasury practice in administering the Superannuation Acts, and I accordingly regret that I am unable to reconsider the award.