§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty how many dockyard employees are now working at Haulbowline; what is the nature of their employment; and whether any skilled dockyard artificers are now employed at Haulbowline?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingExcluding men employed under the Works Department, there are at present 21 men working in the dockyard at Haulbowline. These men are at present engaged in the repair and maintenance of caissons, yard machinery, pumping engines, steam launches, boats, yard plant, &c. Among these men are included six skilled dockyard artificers.
MR. P. O'BRIENI should like to know how the machinery comes to require repairs, considering that it has never yet been set in motion?
§ No answer was given.