ADMIRAL MAYNE (Pembroke and Haverfordwest)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, Whether he has been informed, by very good authority, that the sheers at Pembroke could be completed in six or eight months if the work were carried on with proper energy; and, whether the Aurora's boilers would require to be put in before that time?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)It is anticipated that the Aurora's boilers will be ready to be placed on board early in March next. Even if the proposed shipbuilding programme for Pembroke Yard had rendered it advantageous to enter on the expense of erecting new sheers during the ensuing year, it is very doubtful whether they would be ready as early as March next.