§ MR. SMEATON (Stirlingshire)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether he will state how many applicants there were for nominations to cadetships at Osborne in 1905; how many appeared before the selection board; how many passed the selection board; how many passed their medical examination; how many took part in the qualifying examination; and how many passed the qualifying examination.
§ of the joint totals are as shown below. The statistics for the year 1905–6 are not yet complete.
§ (Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson). 548 boys applied for the cadetships vacant in 1905, and were all interviewed by the Interview Committee which sat in February, June, or November of that year. 275 were afterwards nominated for the qualifying examination, subject to passing a medical examination. 240 passed the medical examination, and of these 212 passed the qualifying examination and entered the college at Osborne.