§ MR. PIKE PEASE (Darlington)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty what was the total sum reserved for contingencies in the original estimate of the Simon's Bay dockyard extension; and what are the nature and cost of the buildings which the Admiralty now proposes to abandon.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) The total sum reserved for contingencies in the original estimate of the Simon's Bay dockyard extension was £369,000. The erection of buildings of the nature of coal sheds, workshops and stores, estimated to cost about £100,000, has been deferred for the present.