HC Deb 10 March 1893 vol 9 cc1619-20
MR. JAMES LOWTHER (Kent, Thanet)

I wish to put a question to the President of the Board of Trade which is virtually a repetition of a question I put yesterday. I desire to know whether he intends longer to delay action on the Report of the Commission on Electrical Communication between Lightships and Light houses; and whether the right hon. Gentleman is aware that the Commissioners estimate that £8,000 would be required to carry out the work; and whether, having regard to the fact that grave disasters, involving great loss of life, have been attributed to absence of these communications, and to the fact that the Commissioners attach importance to this work being immediately carried out apart from the rest of the Report, the right hon. Gentleman will give an assurance that this work will be immediately carried out?

MR. MUNDELLA

The right hon. Gentleman said he wished to ask the same question he put to me yesterday. This is not the question of yesterday. If he will put it on the Paper I will answer it.