HC Deb 19 March 1890 vol 342 c1169
(1.5.) MAJOR RASCH (Essex, S.E.)

I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether it is to be understood that the Local Government Board declines to interfere in the proposed daily deposit of 4,000 tons of solid sewage in the tideway off, Shoebury, within five miles of the town of Southend?

A LORD OF THE TREASURY (Sir HERBERT MAXWELL,) Wigton

My right hon. Friend has asked me to answer this question, and desires me to say that when his hon. and gallant Friend asks if the Local Government Board "declines to interfere" that implies that the Local Government Board has a right to interfere, but the fact is, as he has already informed the hon. and gallant Member, that my right hon. Friend does not possess that right. The Local Government Board has no jurisdiction in the matter.

MAJOR RASCH

In consequence of the answer I have received I bag to say I shall take the opportunity of calling attention to this subject in Committee on the Estimates, and shall move a reduction of the Trinity House Vote.