§ MR. WALDEGRAVE-LESLIEsaid, he would beg to ask the President of the 1122 Board of Trade, As to the relations existing between the Board of Trade or its officers and the promoters of certain Provisional Orders of the Board of Trade, embodied in the Piers and Harbours Orders Confirmation Bill; and whether he can give any information as to the intention or not of the promoters of certain Provisional Orders in the said Bill proceeding with the schemes connected with those Provisional Orders?
§ MR. MILNER GIBSONsaid, in reply, that the relations existing in the case referred to were the same as existed between the Board of Trade and all other promoters who applied under the Act of Parliament for Provisional Orders. Unless there were reasons of public policy which induced the Board of Trade to deny that Provisional Order, they left it to the opponents of the scheme to make their opposition before a Private Bill Committee. He could not say whether the promoters of the schemes alluded to by the hon. Member were likely to proceed with them or not. He knew nothing of the parties.