§ Mr. SHAKESPEAREasked the Financial Secretary to the Treausry, whether he will grant permission in approved cases to retired Territorial officers of the rank of major to sign applications for pensions?
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§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCEI have been asked to answer this question. It is a necessary qualification for a person who attests declaration forms for pensions that he should be in a definite official or quasi-official position so that he can be readily identified and his signature easily verified. Retired Territorial officers would not, I think, always necessarily fulfil this condition, and as the list of persons qualified to attest is already very long, I regret that I cannot agree to its further extension.