§ VISCOUNT VALLETORTsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether any measures are to be 1644 taken, as Formerly recommended by Lord Elphinstone, for improving the position of Officers in the Indian Navy, as regarded retirement and allowances; and, if so, what is likely to be the nature of them?
§ SIR CHARLES WOODsaid, the recommendations of Lord Elphinstone as to the improvement of the Officers of the Indian Navy, together with other questions concerning that Navy, were under the consideration of the Indian Government, and that no decision had as yet been taken regarding them.