§ COMMANDER YOUNG (Berkshire, Wokingham)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the delivery of stores under contract, apart from those required for ship construction, during the financial year 1898–99, was satisfactory.
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. MACARTNEY,) Antrim, S.Deliveries have been generally satisfactory. Certain firms, however, who were in arrear in the year 1897–8 and were specially warned on that account, have again failed to make satisfactory deliveries, and have consequently been removed from the list of contractors.