§ MR. ARNOLD-FORSTER (Croydon)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty what number of men and boys entered and left the Royal Navy (including the Royal Marines) during the year 1905, the waste not to include men struck off on account of death, permament invaliding, or imprisonment for felony or misdemeanour.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) The numbers entered during 1905 were 8,667, and the wastage during the same period (excluding men struck off on account of death, permanent invaliding or imprisonment for felony or misdemeanour) was 10,454. It should, however, be added that there were special arrangements in force in 1905 in regard to discharges from the active list to the Royal Fleet Reserve, so that the wastage under that head was abnormal.