§ MR. EVELYN ASHLEYasked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether, in view of the great public benefit which would be the result of so deepening the water over the bar at Poole Harbour as to make it available for a Harbour of Refuge, the Government would be willing to take into favourable consideration an application that they should contribute some proportion of the necessary cost, on terms similar to those on which the Treasury have recently consented to grant funds in aid of the Harbour at Ardglass?
§ SIR CHARLES ADDERLEY, in reply, said, the Government would not be justified in making contributions from the public rates for the cost of the deepening 156 the water over the bar at Poole Harbour, so as to make it available for a harbour of refuge. There was no analogy or similarity whatever between the harbour of Poole and that at Ardglass, towards which the Treasury had recently consented to grant funds.