§ MR. BELLAIRSI beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether he has any confirmation of the unanimous Report of a recent Committee presided over by Admiral Sir A. Douglas, and of which the Director of Naval Education, Professor Ewing, was a member, to the effect that a few of the Osborne cadets manifest a disinclination to study engineering subjects, and it is suspected that this has been encouraged by the parents; whether the Admiralty agree with the conclusion of the Committee that the development of such feelings or prejudices must have a deletrious effect on the system of training as a whole; and, if so, what steps do the Admiralty propose to take to eradicate this feeling.
§ MR. EDMUND ROBERTSONIn reply to the first part of the Question, since the report of the Committee no complaints of this nature have reached the Admiralty. The remainder of the Question accordingly does not arise.