Viscountess ASTORasked the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty if he can specify in which trades apprenties employed in the Plymouth dockyard will be discharged on the completion of their apprenticeship in August; and whether any scheme has been approved for the absorption of those apprentices whose services will be redundant?
§ Major BOYD-CARPENTERAs far as can be seen at present, the trades in which discharges will take place are shipwrights, ship fitters, smiths and730W boilermakers. No scheme has been approved for employing the men whose services will be redundant.