§ MR. HORACE DAVEYasked the First Commissioner of Works, Whether it is the fact that boilers used for lighting the Royal Courts of Justice were removed only one week before the opening of the Courts, and that there are now no means of heating the Courts; whether the apparatus for lighting the Courts with electric light has not also been removed, and there are now no means of lighting the Courts except oil lamps; why the opportunity of the Long Vacation was not made use of for making the necessary repairs and alterations; and, when he expects to be able to provide light and heat for the Courts?
§ MR. SHAW LEFEVREsaid, the heating apparatus of the Law Courts had been in perfect order since the beginning of the present term. The boilers referred to were for the purpose of the electric light, the machinery for which had previously been in a temporary building outside, but was now to be permanently placed in the crypt inside. Whilst the works were in progress the building could be efficiently lighted by the ordinary lamps.