§ Sir B. FALLEasked the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty if he is aware that Royal Marine schoolmasters were specially included in the revised rates of pay laid down for schoolmasters, Royal Navy, in 1920, and that their work has been brought into line with that of their naval confreres, but that they have been expressly excluded from the provisions of Admiralty Fleet Order 1,982 of this year, which placed the naval schoolmasters more in line with other naval officers of similar rank and seniority; and if he can give the reason?
§ Commander EYRES-MONSELLThe same rates of pay were fixed for Royal Marine schoolmasters as for Naval schoolmasters when new rates of pay were fixed in 1919 and when these rates were revised in 1920. At that time all Naval schoolmasters, as well as marine schoolmasters were serving ashore. When, however, the rates of pay of Naval schoolmasters were again revised this year, in order to bring them into approximate correspondence with those of schoolmasters of similar standing in civilian life, it was not thought necessary to make any alteration in r,he rates of pay of Royal Marine schoolmasters whose work has not been brought into line with that of their Naval confreres. The qualifications required for Royal Marine schoolmasters are not so wide, and, unlike Naval schoolmasters, they are not subject to the disabilities of sea service and frequent changes of appointment.