§ Mr. MIDDLETONasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the grounds upon which recognition cannot be given to the appointment of Professor of Geology of Glasgow University as approved employment within the meaning of Section 4 of the Superannuation Act, 1914, and on what principles a distinction is drawn, for the purposes of 511W that Section, between such an appointment and the recent appointment of Registrar of the University of Oxford, which has been recognised as approved employment within the meaning of the Section?
§ Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCEThe duties of the Registrar of the University of Oxford are largely of an administrative and financial nature, and in view of the considerable grant of public moneys made to that University the application to the civil servant selected by the University for the post of the provision for "approved service" was in the public interest. These considerations did not apply to a purely academic post, such as that of the Professor of Geology in the University of Glasgow.