§ 1. Sir CLEMENT KINLOCH-COOKEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty when a reply will be given to the petitions 2255 presented by storehousemen, first and second grade; and can he inform the House whether the matters of fourteen days' annual leave with full pay and Colonial allowance, both of which were under consideration as far back as March last, have yet been setted?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the ADMIRALTY (Dr. Macnamara)In February last the pay of storehouse-men (first grade), was raised as from the 1st October, 1914, from a scale of 33s. to 39s. a week to one of 34s. to 40s. a week; and that of storehousemen (second grade) from a scale of 26s. to 32s. to one of 28s. to 33s. a week. A further petition has since been received, and is under consideration, but I cannot give any undertaking in regard to it. It is not contemplated to alter the existing Regulations in regard to leave and Colonial allowance.