MR. J. LOWTHERI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade what actual progress has been made towards carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Commission with regard to Electrical Communication with Lightships?
§ MR. MUNDELLAI replied to this question in answer to the hon. Member for Dundee last week. I then stated that the work of connecting with the shore by electric cable the North Goodwin and the Kentish Knock Light Vessels is being proceeded with as rapidly as practicable, and that I hoped they would be completed during the present financial year.
§ MR. JEFFREYS (Hants, Basingstoke)I beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works if he is aware that the unshaded electric lights in the Libraries and Reading Rooms of this House are very injurious to the eyesight; and whether he will take steps to have all these lights carefully shaded?
§ MR. SHAW LEFEVREsaid, that some of the electric lights in the Libraries and Reading Rooms were shaded and some were not, in order to meet the views of hon. Members, some of whom preferred a shaded light, while others complained that the light was insufficient.
§ SIR E. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT (Sheffield, Ecclesall)May I ask whether the right hon. Gentleman will do something to improve the lighting in the Smoking Room, where the electric light is of the most glaring and injurious character?
§ MR. SHAW LEFEVREsaid, he had not received any complaints, but of course he would make inquiries.