§ 72. Mr. Teelingasked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that 5184732 Staff-Sergeant S. L. Spiller, R.A.P.C., was notified in March this year that his war gratuity had been deposited to his credit in Post Office savings and that up to the present date he has not yet received the deposit book, it having apparently first been sent to the wrong unit and then lost; and what action is being taken to put this matter right.
§ Mr. BurkeA bank book in respect of the war gratuity and postwar credit due to Staff-Sergeant Spiller was despatched to him from the Savings Department on 27th February to the address given to the Department. The non-receipt of the book was notified by Staff-Sergeant Spiller in May, and the necessary inquiries preliminary to the issue of a duplicate were completed on 7th June. I regret that there was at that stage some delay in the treatment of the case; but a fresh bank book was sent to Staff-Sergeant Spiller on 30th June, and I understand that it has been received by him.