§ Sir B. FALLEasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if any action has been taken, or is to be taken, to increase the pre-war pensions of pensioned officers in the Malay States Government service; and if he is aware that the Ceylon Government have recently granted a bonus to their pensioned officers and made the same retrospective?
§ Lieut.-Colonel AMERYProposals have been received from the High Commissioner for the Malay States which are now under the. consideration of the Secretary of State. In the case of Ceylon a1470W bonus has been granted as from the 1st January last, in the shape of a percentage on pensions, ranging from 33 per cent, in the case of very small pensions down to 5 per cent, in the case of pensions not exceeding £800. This bonus has been approved only as a temporary measure, pending the Report of a Commission which the Governor proposes to appoint when conditions have become more stable.