§ 17. Mr. LIVINGSTONE (for Sir ROBERT HAMILTON)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the duties and the emoluments of the King's Harbour Master in Orkney?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANIn addition to such ordinary duties as appertain by Statute and Order in Council to a King's Harbour Master of a Dockyard Port, this officer is retained in the interests of the Admiralty while the salvage operations on ex-German men-of-war are in progress. He also acts as agent for the Imperial War Craves Commission in all questions 1837 concerning Lyness Cemetery. His appointment terminates in May next and the question of the appointment of a successor or combining this post with that of another Admiralty officer will be considered.