§ 7. Sir T. BRAMSDONasked the First Lord of the Admiralty how many chief petty officers and petty officers, respectively, have applied for voluntary discharge; and how many have been granted this discharge?
§ Sir R. SANDERSIt has not been possible to grant free discharge to chief petty officers or petty officers of the seaman branch except in special cases where great hardship would have been caused by refusing discharge. The numbers who have been granted free discharge on compassionate grounds since 1st October, 1919, are:
| Chief Petty Officers | Nil | ||
| Petty Officers | … | … | 24 |
§ The number of applications from such ratings is not known, and could not readily be ascertained.