§ MR. W. T. WILSONTo ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he is aware that the joiners employed 30 in the Director of Works' Department in the royal dockyards are paid from 1s. to 3s. 6d. per week less than the joiners employed in the other Departments in the yards; whether he is aware that they have not participated in the advance of wages recently granted to the joiners in the other departments; and whether he will take steps to remove this difference by placing the joiners employed in the Director of Works' Department on the same level, so far as wages and other conditions are concerned, as the joiners employed in the other departments.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) The pay of joiners in the Director of Works' Department, as well as that of other trades, is based on the rates paid in the outside building trade in the various localities.