MR. BYENE (Wicklow, W.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, as Chairman of the Local Government Board, he will order a sworn investigation into the conduct of the rate collector of the Baltinglass Union, Mr. B. Douglas, whose duty it is to supply the revising officer with a list of tenements requiring revision, and in whose district gross mistakes have been made at the recent revision?
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)(who replied) said: The Local Government Board were making preliminary inquiries with regard to the representations made by some of the Guardians of the Baltinglass Union as to the action of some of the Poor Rate collectors in giving information to the revising officer; and on the completion of the inquiry it would be determined whether a sworn inquiry was necessary or not.