§ 81. Sir BERTRAM FALLEasked the First Lord of the Admiralty the average length of home service spent by chief petty officer cooks, petty officer cooks, leading cooks, and cooks at the Portsmouth port division after return from foreign service?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the ADMIRALTY (Mr. Ammon)Taking the service as a whole, the average ratio of sea and foreign service to shore and harbour service at at Home is 2.2 to 1 for the whole of the naval cook branch. The ratio of foreign service to shore and harbour service is not readily available, but is obviously much less.