§ Mr. R. MORRISONasked the Finansial Secretary to the Treasury what grades in the Royal Dockyards and Admiralty establishments which are industrial classes are established; and whether it is the practice to establish men employed under trade conditions and with trade qualifications such as instrument makers and fitters?
§ Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAMIn the industrial grades establishment is allowed not by grade, but for a limited number of workmen in each of the principal classes; men with trade qualifications such as those referred to in the question may be transferred from the hired to the established list in vacancies under Admiralty conditions; the established men continue to be employed under the same working conditions as hired men, but with the different relationship to the Department that establishment entails.