§ MR. J. WARD (Stoke-on-Trent)I bog to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether, in view of the order issued by his Department that in future no more apprentices in His Majesty's dockyard at Portsmouth are to be awarded naval construction scholarships, in spite of the results hitherto obtained, he will say whether this order is intended to practically exclude dockyard boys from the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors unless they can obtain admission through the medium of a King's or Whitworth scholarship; and whether, by this order, it is intended to give better opportunities to private students at the expense of the lads in the dockyards.
§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSONNo such order as that mentioned has been issued.