§ MR. AGG-GARDNERasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, If it is the practice of the Board to refuse to entertain the application of a parent for the discharge of his son, after it has been proved that his admission into the Navy was obtained under a forged sanction and a false name?
§ MR. A. F. EGERTON, in reply, said, boys seeking admission to the Navy were required to bring certificates of birth, or declarations made by their parents that they were of the proper age. In the case referred to by the hon. Member, a boy named Raikes had produced a certificate, purporting to be signed by his father, but really signed, as had since been discovered, by his uncle. The boy did not wish to leave the Navy, but under the circumstances the Admiralty had decided that if the father insisted upon it he must be discharged; and it was under consideration whether the uncle who forged the father's name to the certificate should be prosecuted.