§ Mr. ROBERT YOUNGasked the Minister of Pensions if he is aware that ex-Service men have to travel from Golborne to Earlestown, Lancashire, a distance of nearly five miles, at a cost of lid the return fare; that many of the men cannot afford this outlay; and whether he can make arrangements either to refund this expense or in other ways obviate it in view of the discomfort in tramping that distance during the approaching winter?
§ Major TRYONThere is not sufficient work at Golborne to justify a separate office there and that district is therefore being administered from Earlestown. All payments of grants and allowances to pensioners at Golborne are made by postal draft and (apart from journeys necessitated by medical examination for which the expenses are already paid), the occasions on which an ex-Service man would desire to consult in person the local office at Earlestown should be quite exceptional.