§ 33. Sir B. FALLEasked the Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware that a number of dockyard apprentices have been induced to apply for the post of schoolmaster, Royal Navy; if he is aware that, if two shipwright apprentices join the Royal Navy at the same time, the one as a shipwright chief petty officer and the other as a schoolmaster candidate, acting warrant officer, then at 28 years of age the former, being promoted shipwright warrant officer, will draw 15s. per day while the schoolmaster will draw 11s. 6d. per day, and that 10 years later the shipwright will draw 20s. per day and the schoolmaster 14s., with corresponding pensions; and if, seeing that this scale of pay is not likely to attract the best men to the schoolmaster branch and that the schoolmaster branch is of as great importance as any other, he will try to remedy this state of affairs?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAThe rates of pay of the schoolmaster branch are at present under consideration.