MR. ROBERTS (Flint)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether his attention has been called to the inconvenience suffered by the inhabitants of Flint by the residence of the Registrar of the district being in Northop, a village three and a half miles distant from the Borough of Flint; and whether a petition to the like purport 123 has been sent to the Registrar General from the Town Council of Flint?
§ * THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. RITCHIE,) Tower Hamlets, St. George'sMy attention has not previously been called to the subject of the question. I am informed by the Registrar General that he has received a suggestion from the town clerk of Flint for the sub-division of the existing sub district; but this he has decided is impracticable. The Registrar General has, however, given directions that the Registrar shall attend twice a week at Flint, and, as the population of that borough is under 5,000 and the death-rate less than two a week, there can, in his opinion, be no necessity in the future for any inhabitant of Flint to travel to Northop for registration purposes.