§ Mr. KELLYasked the Secretary of State for War what steps are being taken to place the crews of War Department vessels on the pensionable list?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSMasters and first-class engineers in the War Department Fleet are already established. The question of establishing a proportion of the mates and second-class engineers is under consideration by a sub-committee of the Departmental Administrative Whitley Council. As regard the third-class engineers and other ratings, it is not the practice of the Army Council to place upon the pensionable establishment members of non-supervisory industrial grades and they are unable to make any exception to this rule in the case of the men now in question.