§ MR. WILLIAM JOHNSTONI beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty if he is aware of the great dissatisfaction and disappointment caused in Belfast and the neighbourhood by the disinclination on the part of the Government to place a training ship in Belfast Lough; whether he has had before him the Resolutions of the Belfast Harbour Board, the Local Marine Board, and the Chamber of Commerce, as well as that of the County Antrim Grand Jury; and whether he will make further special inquiries, by a Departmental Committee or otherwise, as to the great importance to the public service of complying in this matter with the universal desire of Ulster?
§ MR. MACARTNEYI have nothing to add to the statement I made on Fridays last during the discussion of the Navy Estimates.
§ MR. W. JOHNSTONIf the hon. Member will not send a training ship, will a guardship be sent?
§ [No reply.]