WAR PENSIONS. Note by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury.

of the of The cost any large amount. above increases, is, however. unlikely to be The rates of service officers full pay and retired pay at ###resent in force are in general 91/2% below those payable in 1919, ###aving been stabilized at their present level in 1935 in ###ursuance of the Government decision that the pay and pensions of Crown Servants should no longer be subject to variation in accordance with the cost of living. The increase in the cost of living since the outbreak of war has given rise to a number of demands for the restoration of the 1919 rates of pay and retired ###ay and the fact that the 1919 rates of pension are adopted by the Minister for some purposes will lend strength to those demands.