§ MR. SIDNEY HERBERT (Croydon)I beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works whether his attention has been called to the column of electric light which is flashed from a theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue; and whether he will consider the desirability of placing a similar light on the Clock Tower of the Houses of Parliament in the place of the inefficient gas light now in use there?
§ MR. SHAW LEFEVREThe new signal gas light recently placed at the top of the Clock Tower is at present incomplete, and cannot be perfected till the Easter Recess. The desirability of substituting a flash electric light has not, so far, been considered, and the propriety of making such a change is, I think, very doubtful.