§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, seeing that a Civil Service examination is held every two years for the position of store-houseman in the dockyard establishments, that the entrance fee is 5s., that men up to the age of 45 are permitted to sit for this examination, whereas most of the men over 35 have only a remote chance of passing, he can see his way to remit the 5s. fee in respect of the older men?
Mr. ALEXANDERI cannot agree that most of these men have only a remote chance of passing the examination, and in any case there could be no ground for remitting the examination fee seeing that no man is compelled to take the examination.