§ Lieut.-Colonel JAMESasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he will arrange that no examination is imposed on ex-service men employed as temporary draughtsmen in the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty for established posts, since the complement provided for that Department is in excess of the number of existing ex-service temporary draughtsmen employed in that Department?
Mr. DAVIDSONI have been asked to reply. The examination which is about to be held should be well within the capacity of any candidate with the standard of qualifications which is considered to be requisite for draughtsmen in the Hydrographic Department, and it would not be in the interests of the Service, to waive this examination, as suggested by my hon. Friend.