Transcribed by Ann Selchick. Geo. THE WHITEHAVEN NEWS, SEPT. 19. 1907 LUCKY PENSIONERS. _____ “A clerk in the War Office retired in 1855, after fifteen years service, and ever since has drawn a pension of £56. Four year later,” says a writer in “Cassell’s Saturday Journal,” “in 1859 he was followed by a confrere who, for five quarters’ work, is still in receipt of a pension. Equally curious an instance is connected with the Foreign Office. After only thirteen years service a gentleman retired on the score of ill health, and now, after an interval of thirty-seven years, he is still drawing £90 per annum. Better still, is the case of a Foreign Office clerk, who retired through impaired health in 1873. Bad as he then was, he continues to receive a pension of £216 13s 4d. __________