§ Sir T. BRAMSDONasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty if he will state, for the information of the chief petty officers of the Royal Navy, what the alterations in the optional articles of kit of chief petty officers asked for by the 1919 advisory members to the Welfare Committee consisted of, as Item 50 of the General Requests merely states dress of chief petty officers to be altered?
§ Mr. AMERYThe alterations in the optional kit of Chief Petty Officers asked for by the advisory members of the Welfare Committee of 1919 were the addition of white woollen gloves and authority to wear blue waterproof coats ("mackintoshes") instead of waterproof coats of the oilskin type. Both of these alterations have been approved and notified to the Fleet. In addition, requests were made that certain small articles which are not actually specified in the kit.,e.g., singlets, shaving brushes, safety-pins for collars, etc., should be stocked for issue on repayment, not only to chief petty officers, but to ratings generally who require them. This is being done.