MR. PHILIPPSI beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether his attention has been called to the low rate of wages paid to the workmen at Pembroke Dockyard; and whether the rate of wages at Pembroke Dock is lower than the rate of wages at other Royal Dockyards; and, if so, whether the pay of the workmen at Pembroke Dock can be raised?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingThe rates of wages for the different classes of workmen are the same at Pembroke as at the other dockyards. There is one uniform, scale of rates for all the yards. My gallant Friend the Member for Pembroke has for a long time past pressed on me the advisability of so grading the different rates of pay as to insure a more certain rise within fixed periods for deserving workmen to the higher rates of pay. This matter I have for some time past been considering, and in a very few days new regulations will be issued.