§ Mr. CARR-GOMMasked the Secretary to the Admiralty whether his attention has been called to the fact that the stripping and re-slating of roofs at the Royal Victualling Yard, Grove Street, Deptford, has for some years past been carried out by bricklayers; and, if so, will he state why these men have been employed to carry out this work in preference to competent slaters?
Mr. LAMBERTI find that bricklayers have been employed on certain small odd jobbing work, which included slating, at Deptford. The work did not warrant the employment of slaters, but men of this trade would be employed for any extensive work.