§ MR. KEIR HARDIETo ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether the attention of his department has been drawn to the practice of beagling as carried on by the cadets of H.M.S. "Britannia"; and whether, in future, the grant; of money out of which this sport is maintained will be made conditional upon the practice being discontinued and the drag hunt substituted.
(Answer.) The suggestion made by the hon. Member to the effect that the pack of beagles which is kept for the recreation of cadets on board H.M.S. "Britannia" should be discontinued has already been brought before the Board of Admiralty, but no sufficient reason is seen for suppressing the pack, and the answer to the hon. Member's Question is, therefore, in the negative.—(Admiralty.)