§ MR. ALFRED THOMAS (Glamorgan, E.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture why, according to the official Report of the Ordnance Survey of 1889, no progress has been made in the publication of the new one-inch sheets Ordnance Survey of certain parts of South Wales, including the most densely inhabited portions of Glamorganshire; and if he would explain the reason of this delay, and state when such publications may be expected to be issued?
§ MR. CHAPLINI am informed that it is not the case that no progress has been made in the publication of the new one-inch sheets of the Ordnance Survey of certain parts of South Wales. Five sheets of the new one-inch map of South Wales have been published in outline with contour lines. But owing to the pressure of other work connected with the completion of the maps of England on the larger scales of 25 and six inches to a mile, comparatively small progress 327 has been made in the publication of the new series of the smaller map on the scale of one inch to a mile. Attention has been directed to the matter with the view of expediting, so far as may be practicable, the publication of these maps. I am sorry that I am unable to say when the sheets of South Wales will be issued.