§ MR. THORNHILLasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether, in the event of highway board districts being done away with and union areas substituted for them, the existing clerks of the highway boards will be retained in their present position, or whether the work will be done by union clerks, and, in the latter case, what compensation the highway board clerks will receive?
§ MR. SCLATER-BOOTH, in reply, said, that there was no provision made for compensation in the Highways Acts, and it was competent for the magistrates to break up the districts formed under those Acts, quite irrespective of the provisions of the present Bill.