§ MR. W. T. WILSONTo ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that a very large percentage of the joiners employed in the Director of Works Department at the royal dockyards are paid from 1s. to 2s. 6d. per week less wage than is paid by the builders in the towns where the royal dockyards are situated; and whether he will take steps to raise the wages of those men to at least the same rate as that paid by the builders.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) The general question of the pay of workmen in the Works Department is now being considered by the Admiralty, and a decision on this and various other grades of labour will shortly be promulgated.