asked the Home Secretary whether he proposes to take any steps whereby those members of the police force who were advised to retire before the 1st April, 1919, after which date the new scales of pay and pension came into force, shall be given pensions on the increased scale which they would have enjoyed had they remained a little longer in the force?

Mr. HENDERSON:

In certain cases where a member of the force agreed to advance the date of his retirement in order to meet the convenience of the police authority, the pension has been reassessed as though the man had continued to serve after 1st April, 1919.

asked the Home Secretary whether he proposes to take any steps whereby police pensioners who were compelled to continue their service in the force during the War, although they had completed their 26 years' service, shall be given their pensions retrospectively for the time during which they served, in order to put them on the same basis as sailors and soldiers?

Mr. HENDERSON:

No Sir; I do not think there is any analogy between the two cases. Police pensions like other civil pensions are regulated by Statute upon principles which. I understand, are quite different from those which apply to naval or military pensions.