§ MR. T. H. BOLTON (St. Pancras, N.)asked the honourable Member for North West Staffordshire, Whether he will consider the propriety of laying out the vacant land on the west side of the Royal Courts of Justice as an ornamental garden for the use of the public?
MR. LEVESON GOWER (A LORD of the TREASURY) (Stafford, N.W.)It is not proposed to lay out as a public recreation ground the land in question, which will be required at no distant time for the extension of the Courts of Justice. A Departmental Committee has recently reported in this sense.
§ MR. T. H. BOLTONasked, whether the hon. Gentleman would consider the propriety, at all events, of making some slight alterations by fixing ornamental railings and laying down grass, in order that the grounds might be made more sightly than they now were?
MR. LEVESON GOWERsaid, he would bring the matter before the notice of the First Commissioner of Works.