§ MR. E. H. BAYLEYI beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if lie will explain on what grounds Major Tulloch, R.E., has received since 1891, and is now receiving, a salary at the rate of £200 per annum, and Captain Buckle, R.E., a salary at the rate of £300 per annum, the former as consulting engineer, and the latter as resident engineer, for carrying out the new drainage and water-works at Gibraltar, although the prosecution of the said works has not been sanctioned?
§ MR. S. BUXTON(who replied) said: Major Tulloch was appointed in September, 1892, consulting engineer for the contemplated drainage works recommended in his Report, and Captain Buckle, when he ceased to be engineer to the Sanitary Commissioners, was appointed resident engineer for the works in question. The prosecution of the works was sanctioned, and plans and specifications, together with the necessary draft contract, had been prepared with a view to calling for tenders, when the Secretary of State, in view of the local objections to the scheme proposed, appointed a Committee to consider certain points connected with it, and pending its Report, which Lord Ripon hopes to receive before the end of the year, the prosecution of the works has been postponed.