§ MR. MORGAN LLOYDasked the First Commissioner of Works, If he will state to the House the reason why the Division of Ordnance Surveys now at work in North Wales is about to be removed into another district before the completion of the Survey on which it is now engaged; and, why the expenses already incurred in the triangulation and partial survey of a large portion of North Wales should thereby be rendered useless?
LORD HENRY LENNOX, in reply, said, that the hon. Member asked two Questions, the first being why the staff of the Ordnance Survey were to be removed from North Wales before they had completed the survey on which they were engaged, to which he would reply that that staff were engaged on the survey of the richer mineral districts in Flintshire, Cheshire, and Denbighshire; the two former were completed, and Denbighshire would be surveyed before the staff of the Ordnance Survey removed. With regard to the second question, he could assure the hon. Member that the expenses of the triangulation and partial survey to which he alluded would not be useless, but would be available whenever the survey of North Wales was taken up in the ordinary course of procedure.