§ SIR CHARLES CAYZER (Barrow-in-Furness)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Trade whether he can state the amount which was paid to ship-owners in the shape of a reduction of the lighthouse dues for 4,373 apprentices carried by them under the scheme of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Croydon since 1898; and what was the average yearly payment per head per boy.
(Answered by Mr. Bonar Law.) I am not able to state the amount paid with respect to the 4,373 apprentices carried under Mr. Ritchie's boy sailors scheme up to the 18th instant, as no payments 1359 have yet been made for boys employed during the year 1904–5. The amount paid from 1898 to the end of the year 1903–4 was £13,653. It is not possible to give the average yearly payment per head per boy.