§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTON (Middlesex, Ealing)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty if he would give, as a Parliamentary Return, the valuable Paper recently read by Mr. Durston, Engineer-in-Chief of the Royal Navy, before the Institute of Naval Architects, entitled: "The Machinery of Warships," and the discussion which ensued thereon?
§ THE CIVIL LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. EDMUND ROBERTSON, Dundee)This Paper is the property of the Institution of Civil Engineers; and Mr. Durston did not deliver it in his official capacity as Engineer-in-chief of the Royal Navy. I do not think the Admiralty can take the unusual course of giving as a Parliamentary Return a document of this kind for which they have no responsibility.