§ MR. T. BLAKE (Gloucester, Forest of Dean)asked the honourable Member for North West Staffordshire, as representing 1628 the First Commissioner of Works, with reference to the answer given by him on Tuesday last, relative to the description of stone to be used in the erection of the new Admiralty and War Office, Whether he is aware that here is in the Forest of Dean a large quantity of excellent stone which is the property of the Crown, and that specimens of this stone have been sent to the Office of Works; and, if so, whether these specimens have been submitted to the Committee referred to by him?
A LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. LEVESON GOWER) (Stafford, N.W.)Specimens of the Forest of Dean stone were submitted to the Committee, and unanimously rejected by them, solely on the ground of unsuitability of colour.