§ MR. CHANNING (Northampton, E.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade how soon the alterations and additions in the Signal Book proposed by the International Code of Signals Committee will be in print, and will be sent to the Governments of other Maritime States for their approval; and, whether a letter of inquiry, similar to the letter of inquiry on the subject of night signalling, will be issued by the Committee to shipowners and Mercantile Marine Associations to obtain opinions as to the establishment of a system of sound signals to be used by steam and sailing vessels during foggy weather to indicate the course steered, and the limits and most practical way of carrying out such a system?
§ *THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Sir MICHAEL HICKS BEACH,) Bristol, W.The revised book is being got through the Press as rapidly as possible, and will be communicated to the Governments of Maritime States at the earliest possible date. A letter of inquiry in the sense suggested by the hon. Member has, I find, already been addressed to representatives of the interests concerned, by direction of the Chairman of the Committee.