HC Deb 19 November 1888 vol 330 c1510
MR. OSBORNE MORGAN (Denbighshire, E.)

asked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether, in view of the grave inconvenience experienced by a large number of persons in the Principality of Wales interested in the provisions of the Local Government Act, who are unable to read or understand what is to them a foreign language, he will now take steps to have that Act translated into Welsh?

THE PRESIDENT (Mr. RITCHIE) (Tower Hamlets, St. George's)

I cannot undertake to issue an edition of the Local Government Act in Welsh. I should doubt whether there was a considerable number of persons in Wales who desire to make themselves acquainted with the details of the Act, and who understand no English; but if there be any substantial demand for a Welsh translation of the Statute, I think there is good reason to expect that a translation will be supplied by private enterprise.