§ MR. MARUM (Kilkenny, N.)asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether he is aware that the Board of Public Works (Ireland) have recently adopted a Rule suspending payments of instalments of land improvement advances where only one year's rent is due by the occupier, although it is customary to have a running gale upon such holdings, and hitherto there had been no stoppage of payments under such circumstances; and, whether, in view of the agricultural depression and the necessity for affording industrial employment, he will have the old practice reverted to?
§ THE SECRETARY (Mr. JACKSON) (Leeds, N.)I am informed that the Board of Works has made no recent Rule such as that referred to; but the established practice is when there is no hanging gale to refuse to issue instalments after a year's rent is due, but when there is a hanging gale it is always recognized by the Board, and due allowance made for it.