MR. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTHasked the hon. and gallant Member for Truro, Whether (under the 8th Clause of the Metropolis Water Act of last Session) the Metropolitan Board of Works have made or are about to make application to any of the Water Companies, requiring them to give a constant supply of water in any districts of the Metropolis, seeing that the six months named in the statute have now elapsed?
COLONEL HOGG, in answer to the Question of the hon. Member, reminded him that before the companies could be compelled to provide a constant supply of water the regulations as to fittings, according to Section 10, were to be in operation. The companies issued their proposed regulations a few weeks since. These were at once considered by the Metropolitan Board, and placed before an engineer of great experience in such matters for his opinion as to their fitness; he had already made a preliminary report, which the Metropolitan Board had submitted to the Board of Trade, with a request that a full opportunity might be allowed for the complete and most careful examination of the regulations. The importance of such an examination would be obvious, as the question of these regulations went to the very root of the subject.