§ Commander BELLAIRSasked the Minister of Munitions whether lie will endeavour to arrange, in conjunction with the Admiralty and the War Office Inventions Committees, for considering how far cheaper and simpler designs of articles now supplied to the Army and Navy can be substituted for the existing designs commonly called "sealed patterns"; and whether he will consider the promotion of a public exhibition of such articles as are not of a confidential character with the specifications, so that inventors can have access with the view of obtaining improvements both in efficiency and economy?
§ Mr. FORSTERI will consult the Departments referred to.