§ MR. L. HASLAM (Monmouth Boroughs)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he has had brought under his notice schemes for providing the training, considered necessary by the promoters, of officers and men for the merchant service; and whether, in view of the commercial and Imperial advantages to be gained by the increase in the number of adequately trained officers and seamen, he will consider the advisability of assisting, by means of public funds, such scheme or schemes as may be approved by the Board of Trade.
§ MR. KEARLEYThe whole subject is now under the consideration of a Board of Trade Committee of which I am chairman, and which has been appointed to report upon the most practicable scheme for the supply and training of boy seamen of British nationality for the mercantile marine.