§ MR. FELLI beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty if he will state the total amount of the orders placed with Messrs. White's yard at Cowes by the Admiralty in each of the financial years 1905–6, 1906–7, 1907–8, and in 1908–9 up to the present date.
§ MR. MCKENNAThe total amounts of orders placed with Messrs. J. S. White & Co., Ltd., are as follows: 1905–6, £375,929; 1906–7, £289,236; 1907–8, £305,150; 1908–9 (contracts signed to date), £16,768.