§ 18. Mr. E. BROWN (for Mr. HOREBELISHA)asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he will consider the possibility of reviewing the present status and rates of pay of men employed in His Majesty's dockyards in printing and reproducing from drawings and designs, in order that their conditions of service may be brought into line with those obtaining in other Government establishments, seeing that, at present, in certain cases the men employed in printing and reproducing are paid less wages than the messenegers who carry their work between the various Departments?
§ Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAMThe men in question are appropriately graded and their rates of wages are fairly assessed in relation to those of other classes of workpeople in the dockyards; there is therefore no reason for reviewing their position.