§ Mr. MILDMAYasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, with a view to mitigating the same, he will consider the hardship to which assistant store officers will be subjected on account of the congestion in the ranks of the naval store officers whereby, through the closing of minor dockyards overseas, it is likely that existing assistant store officers may have to stagnate for thirty years in the junior grade until on the eve of retirement?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe question is now under the consideration of the Board.