§ MR. W. T. WILSON (Lancashire, Westhoughton)I beg to ask the First. Lord of the Admiralty whether the storehouse staff at the Chatham Dockyard that prepared the racks, bins, and shelves for the storerooms of H.M.S. "Blake" are skilled or unskilled workmen, and whether they were paid the rate of wages usually paid to workmen doing this class of work; and whether the workmen that fixed the work on board the ship were skilled or unskilled workmen.
§ DR. MACNAMARAThe men employed on the work referred to are rated as skilled labourers—the class of men which is usually employed on work of this character in the storehouses. Their wages are fixed at a rate of from 22s. to 28s. per week. The racks, bins 53 and shelves were fixed on board, the ship by men of the ship's company, under the carpenter of the vessel.