Captain TERRELLasked the Prime Minister whether he will consider the appointment of a Select Committee of the House to consider the whole question of payment of pensions by the State, more especially in the direction of ascertaining whether it would be to the advantage of the community as a whole that a full and 1744W just market wage should in future be paid to all its employés and that pensions should be entirely abandoned?
Mr. YOUNGThe answer is in the negative. The system under which the remuneration of permanent servants of the State includes, as a rule, provision for superannuation is based upon long experience, and I do not think that it would be in the public interest to reconsider it in present circumstances.