§ MR. BROGDENasked the First Commissioner of Works, If it is true that he has removed the men engaged upon the six-inch Ordnance Survey from South Wales to Sutherlandshire; and if so, and the removal is caused by an insufficient staff, if he will state to the House the reason why he does not ask for an increased Vote, in order to complete the survey as soon as possible?
§ MR. AYRTON,in reply, said, that his hon. Friend was under a misapprehension. The men engaged in the survey had been employed in Wales during the winter months, and in the summer, when the weather in Sutherlandshire was favourable for the purpose, some of them were removed thither to complete work which had been left undone. When the weather in the North of Scotland ceased to be favourable to the conduct of the surveying operations, the men would go back to Wales to complete the survey of the mining districts.