§ MR. BRUNNER (Cheshire, Northwich)asked the honourable Member for North West Staffordshire, Whether he will consider the advisability of instructing the officials conducting the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain and Ireland to engrave, near the broad arrow denoting what is called a bench mark, the height above the sea of such bench mark in feet and decimals of a foot?
MR. LEVESON GOWER (A LORD of the TREASURY) (Stafford, N. W.)The information asked for by the hon. Member is shown on all the published maps on the larger scales. To engrave it on the structural objects on which the bench marks are cut would be inadvisable for many reasons, especially as without some technical knowledge the information would not be understood by the general public. Moreover, the expense of engraving additions to the immense number of bench marks would be very considerable.