§ SIR J. PULESTON (Devonport)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, through dearth of engine-room artificers, the number of this class has been reduced in Her Majesty's ships recently commissioned and additional chief stokers are being employed?
§ LORD G. HAMILTONNo. The changes alluded to are the result of a careful investigation and revision of existing and past complements, and are not in any way influenced by the numbers of the existing lists.