MR. EGERTON ALLEN&c. (Pembroke,)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he is aware that the Pembrokeshire County Council have erected a police lock-up at Tenby under conditions which render desirable, for sanitary reasons, the acquisition of two adjacent cottages, and that the Tenby Town Council have objected, on sanitary grounds, to the erection of this lock-up; whether the Local Government have refused to sanction a loan being raised by the County Council in consequence of the objection of the Tenby Town Council; whether he is aware that legal proceedings have been entered upon between the Town Council and the County Council and that the County Council proposes to pay for the lock-up by a rate in one year: and whether the Local Government Board can see its way, in the interests of all concerned, to advise the Local Authorities to purchase between them the two cottages adjoining the lock-up?
§ *THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. H. H. FOWLER,) Wolverhampton, E.The Pembroke County Council applied to the Local Government Board for sanction to a loan for the erection of a lock-up at Tenby, and at the local inquiry held by the Board's Inspector objections were urged on behalf of the Tenby Town Council. It appeared to the Board that certain bye-laws of the Town Council had not been complied with in connection with this building, and they refused to sanction the loan. Proceedings have since been instituted by the Town Council against the County Council as regards these bye-laws, which, I believe, are still pending. The County Council are empowered to defray the cost of the works out of current rates. The question as to the course which should be adopted by the Authorities is not, in my opinion, a matter in which the Board can intervene.