§ SIR TREVOR LAWRENCE (Surrey, Reigate)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether it is the intention of the Metropolitan Board of Works to maintain the ornamental gardening in the Parka proposed to be handed over to the Board, and especially whether it is their intention to continue the Sub-Tropical Garden in Battersea Park, which has been for years a striking ornament to the Park, and a source of pleasure and instruction to all who visited, it?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)I am informed by the Metropolitan Board of Works that, the Parks in question not having yet been handed over to the Board, the question of the way in which they should be maintained in future has not at present been considered. The hon. Member may, however, rely upon it that the Board will endeavour so to maintain the Parks that there may be no diminution of the pleasure and instruction which they have hitherto afforded to the public.