§ 10. Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether the non-payment of the extra 5s. war bonus given to men in naval establishments at home and withheld from men who have gone out from this country to work in the dockyard at Gibraltar is causing considerable dissatisfaction; that the 21s. a week allowed for Colonial pay is insufficient to meet the extra outgoing expenses; and that an ordinary dockyardsman at Gibraltar has to pay 26s. a week for food without washing and other 1296 outgoings; and whether, in view of these facts as well as the further fact that, by the articles of agreement signed by workmen appointed to naval establishments abroad, which include Gibraltar, the Government undertake that the wages paid to their employés shall be their rate of pay plus any war increase, he will consider the possibility of granting the men at Gibraltar the extra 5s. a week war bonus?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of ADMIRALTY (Dr. Macnamara)The additional 5s. a week war increase in wages granted to workmen in the Home Dockyards on the 1st April has been approved to be paid, as from the same date, to the Home Dockyard workmen serving at Gibraltar.