§ MR. J. O'CONNOR (Tipperary, S.)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty, 714 Whether it is a fact that a gratuity of one month's pay was awarded to workmen of seven years' service on being discharged from Chatham Dockyard; and, whether he will extend a like favour to the men under notice to be discharged from Haulbowline on the 1st June?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON) (Middlesex, Ealing)The gratuity of a month's pay which is to be awarded to certain classes of workmen of Chatham Dockyard will be extended to all classes of workmen of similar standing and occupation who may be discharged this year in consequence of the reduction of the Dockyard establishments. I cannot say now if the men under notice to be discharged from Haulbowline on the 1st of June will come in this category; but my impression is that they will not.