§ 15. Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether his attention has been called to the calling up of apprentices and ex-apprentices who are established in the Royal Dockyard at Devonport; and whether he can make any statement in the matter?
§ Dr. MACNAMARADockyard employés, including apprentices and ex-apprentices, who are in medical Grade 1 and who had not reached the age of twenty-three on the 1st January, 1917, are being called up for military service in accordance with the decision of the 1028 Government and with the provisions of the Military Service Acts. The exceptions to this rule are the men bonâ fide employed in the shipbuilding occupations set out in Section A of the Revised Schedule of Protected Occupations, with the age limit of nineteen shown against them in the Schedule; these men are not being called up.