I have received your Despatch No. 56 of the
11 May enclosing a
letter addressed to me by
Mr. Justice Crease respecting the pension he
will be entitled to draw on retiring from the service.
You will inform
Mr. Crease that I cannot doubt that the Government
of Canada will place the judges of
B.C. in as good a position as regards
pension, as the judges of the other Provinces who have already entered
the Dominion but that Federation is now too far advanced for me to
impose upon the Government of Canada any new conditions as to pensions.