§ MR. SLOAN (Belfast, S.)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty if he will explain under what circumstances the purchase-money—viz. (£25) has been refused in the case of Ormsby Webb, Boy 1st Class, O.N. 220, 708; and will he recommend the Admiralty to accept the purchase-money necessary to obtain this boy's discharge.
(Answered by Mr. Pretyman.) This boy has been under training for two years at considerable expense to the country, during which time no application for his discharge appears to have been made. No sufficient reasons are now forthcoming to justify his discharge just as his training is completed. No material change appears to have taken place in the circumstances of the family since the boy joined the Navy.