§ Sir C. COBBasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Shipping Controller whether he will arrange for the publication of a complete statement of the accounts of the Gravesend Sea School, to include the cost per head per week of the food of the pupils and also the salaries paid to the captain and other individual members of the staff; and whether the recent statement of the total cost of the school included the whole or any part of the cost of the Board of Trade tender "Mantis," on which the pupils receive practical training from the master and mate of that vessel?
Colonel WILSONA statement of accounts giving the information desired will be prepared and circulated in the OFFICIAL REPORT. No part of the cost of the. "Mantis" (whose ordinary Board of Trade duties have not been interfered with) has been included in recent statement of the cost of the school, but I would point out. that any additional expenditure due to the training of the boys is very small.