§ MAJOR RASCH (Essex, S.E.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, in view of the fact that there is a Vote for £10,000 in the Navy Estimates for dredging between Sheerness and Chatham, whether the rubbish will be, as now, deposited on the Kent and Essex fishing grounds?
§ MR. E. ROBERTSONIt being of paramount importance to complete at once the dredging of the Ship Channel in the Medway, arrangements have been made to continue for the present the depositing at the Nore of the dredged material, but only at the eastern of the two approved places of deposit there, and in not less than 55 feet of water, and at ebb tide exclusively. The western place of deposit will be abandoned.