§ MR. CAREW (Kildare, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland what is the cause of the delay on the part of the Local Government Board in sanctioning the appointment made, so far back as the 26th of March last, by the Athy Board of Guardians, of a sub-sanitary officer for Castledermot?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe delay arose owing to a subsequent proposal from the Board of Guardians to constitute Castledermot a relief district, in which case, according to the usual practice, the relief officer would probably have become the sanitary sub-officer. The Local Government Board having decided that the proposed change in the relief districts should not be made, the question of the appointment of the sanitary sub-officer for Castledermot is now being proceeded with.