asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether he is aware that in H.M.S. "Vernon" shore establishment the chief petty officers are not messed in accordance with the principles laid down in Article 852., paragraphs 2 and 5, of the King s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, inasmuch as they are not entirely messed by themselves; that they have definitely expressed the desire to be self-contained and to have a chief petty officers' mess and bar; and whether, in view of the fact that the Admiralty admit the principle of separate messing accommodation on shore establishments for chief petty officers, they will accede to the request of the chief petty officers of H.M.S. "Vernon," in accordance with the desire expressed in the reply to Item No. 57 of the 1919 welfare requests?