Proposed Increase of £700 Per Annum London, July 1 The House of Lords to-day cussed the question of the pensions of Colonial Governors.
Viscount Elibank and Lord Olivier Inid stress on the inadequacy of the present pensions.
Lord Lovat, the Under-Secretary, of State for the Dominions, replying said that the Government had ong been impressed with the neces-study the subject, presided over by for revision, A committee to
Earl Buxton, had already made re-which were being embodied in a Bill to be introduced very soon, though not in 1928. mendation was the raising of the limit of the pension from $1,300 to. £2,000 per annum. He said that the Bill would be retrospective only in the case of Governors who were serving at the present time—Reuter,
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