§ Brigadier-General CROFTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions whether Mr. C. J. Hankinson, the late superintendent of the Archives Registry, whose summary dismissal has been the subject of discussion in this House, was responsible for the reception of some 30,000,000 papers and documents, many of them of an important and confidential character, the storage and custody of the same, and the arrangements for housing and preservation of the same; and whether at the date of Mr. Hankinson's appointment he was considered to have special qualifications for the post to which he had been appointed?
Mr. HOPEMr. Hankinson was responsible for the reception and sortage of 61W official files numbering about 4½ millions. At the date of his appointment it was considered that Mr. Hankinson's qualifications rendered him a suitable official to occupy the post.