COLONEL DUNNEsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, When the Returns ordered as to the Holyhead Packet Station, and Correspondence with the Dublin Steam Packet Company, will be laid upon the table of the House; and whether anything will be done, and when, to carry out the promised alterations in Holyhead Pier, for the purpose of securing the safety of the Mail Packets and the passengers landing from them?
§ MR. MILNER GIBSONsaid, that the control of Holyhead Harbour having been transferred by an Act of last Session from the Admiralty to the Board of Trade, it devolved upon him to answer the hon. and gallant Member. The correspondence in question was being prepared, and would soon be laid on the table. As to the promised alterations at the Pier, he was informed that the piles connecting the wooden jetty were completed. The structure which had been contemplated on the jetty was not being proceeded with, but some substitute for it was under consideration.
COLONEL DUNNEsaid, he wished to know whether something more effectual than the mere driving of these piles was not to be done?
§ MR. MILNER GIBSONsaid, the hon. and gallant Member's Question referred to "the promised alterations." The only alterations which he understood to have been promised by the Admiralty and the Treasury were the driving of piles to prevent the sea passing through the present jetty, and the erection of a roofed structure upon the jetty.