§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether facilities will be given whereby His Majesty's dockyard apprentices shall be guaranteed a term of security of work in the dockyard on completion of their apprenticeship, having regard for, in the event of immediate discharge, the sacrifices made by their parents and the unpreparedness of the apprentices, who have had no opportunity to save?
Mr. DAVIDSONI am afraid that no such guarantee can be given; it is the practice of the Admiralty to give some degree of preference to men who hove served as dockyard apprentices, but preference cannot be given where it involves the discharge of other workmen with superior claims on other grounds.