MR. OSBORNE MORGANasked the First Commissioner of Works, Whether he can state to the House the cause of the delay which has occurred in carrying out the Ordnance Survey of England and Wales on the 25-inch scale; and, whether there is any chance of such Survey ever being completed?
§ MR. GERARD NOEL,in reply, said, the Survey was progressing satisfactorily as far as the annual sum voted by Parliament would permit. Thirteen counties had been fully surveyed, and at the present moment the Survey was going on in the Midland district and two counties in the Eastern district. Almost the whole of Scotland had been surveyed on the 25-inch scale, and the whole of Ireland on the 6-inch scale. He was told by the Director General of Surveys that it would still take 18 years to complete the Survey.