§ MR. ANDERSONasked the First Lord of the Admiralty, If, seeing that employment for the navigating officers in the Navy has been made more scarce by the Order which allows the Service officers to qualify for navigating duties, he will issue a reciprocal Order allowing navigating officers to qualify for general service duties; or in what other way he proposes to compensate the navigating officers for the disadvantages which a change, otherwise advantageous to the public service, has imposed on them?
§ MR. HUNT, in reply, said, the hon. Member had put to him an argumentative Question which that was not the proper occasion to deal with; but he did not admit that navigating officers were prejudiced by the Order referred to. What he proposed to do with respect to qualifying for general service was to transfer navigating midshipmen to the executive list if they desired it, either in their present rank or on passing the examination for sub-lieutenant.