§ MR. A. MOOREasked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether it is a fact that, owing to monetary differences between the Great Southern and Western and Limerick and Waterford Railways as to the terms of occupation and use of the station at Limerick Junction, the latter Company have received notice to quit and are now engaged in constructing a station on their own land some five hundred or six hundred yards from the existing station; and, whether, as this is the most important centre of Railway communication in the South of Ireland, and that by the proposed arrangements very great inconvenience will be caused to the public, attended, probably, with delays in the transmission of mails and parcels, the Board of Trade will take steps, by arbitration or otherwise, to protect the public from such grave annoyance?
§ MR. CHAMBERLAINThe Board of Trade have no official knowledge of the circumstances referred to in the Question of my hon. Friend, and, as no question of public safety appears to be involved, they would have no power to interfere unless appealed to by both of the Railway Companies interested. Should the Companies apply to the Board of Trade, I shall be happy to direct steps to be at once taken in order to bring the differences which are alleged to exist to a satisfactory termination.