§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty if he can slate the number of Irish boys who joined the Royal Navy between May 1st, 1904, and April 30th, 1906, at ports in Great Britain and Ireland other than Queenstown.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) In the two years ended December 31st, 1905, approximately 230 boys (i.e., entries under eighteen, including boys, youths, domestics, artificers, and artisans) born in Ireland entered the Royal Navy at ports in Great Britain and Ireland other than Queenstown. Of these about 200 were "boys" and "youths."