§ Mr. JESSE COLLINGSasked the First Lord of the Admiralty if in the contracts for the supply of meat to the Navy it is stipulated that the meat supplied should be Home produce; and, in case there is no such stipulation, will he state approximately the value of the foreign meat supplied and that of the Home meat?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAThe great bulk of the fresh meat supplied to His Majesty's ships in Home waters is killed at the naval victualling establishments at Chatham, Portland, Portsmouth, and Devonport, the animals being delivered alive, and therefore, under present circumstances, necessarily raised in this country. The balance of the fresh meat obtained by the Fleet at other Home ports is all killed in this country, and a considerable proportion is known to be the produce of home-raised animals.