§ MR. RYDER (Gravesend)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the Government will take into their consideration the advisability of acquiring Northfleet Dockyard, near Gravesend, which is protected by every fort on the Thames, as a shipbuilding or repairing yard for some of Her Majesty's ships of war?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. W. E. MACARTNEY, Antrim, S.)The Admiralty have no such intention.