6. Mr. DUNCANasked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that the men employed in the Victualling Yard are only being paid bare time for working during the August holidays, although the men employed at Woolwich are receiving an extra day's pay; can ho state the reason for this differentiation; and will he take steps to have the men at Deptford treated the same as the men at Woolwich?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAIn view of the method adopted at Woolwich, the men in the Victualling Yard who worked on the 7th and 8th August can, if they wish, receive the extra day's pay in respect of each of these days so worked to which they are entitled. But if they do, on the dates on which the postponed holidays are taken they will, of course, receive no pay. Further, if they work on those days, they will be paid at ordinary rates.