16 DECEMBER 1916, Page 3

The proper and the reasonable plan for a statesman who

has held high office is when he leaves office to go automatically an half-pay, provision of course being made to prevent a man being given high office in order to provide him with a pension. In other words, a luau would not acquire the right to half-pay while in Opposition unless he had been in office for, say, at least two years. With that safe- guard there need be no fear of jobbery in this respect.