§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, seeing that under the present system of collecting and distributing naval ratings to and from the Royal Naval Hospital, Stone-house, hardships and unnecessary exposure occur, arrangements could be made to collect and distribute these ratings to ships in His Majesty's Dockyard and the Royal Naval Barracks, with- 603W out first taking them around the various ships afloat in the harbour before they are finally landed either at the dockyard or Royal Naval Barracks?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANSuch matters are naturally left to the local authorities, and I have had no reason to think that the existing arrangements involve either hardship or unnecessary exposure, but I will make further inquiries.