§ MR. WEIRI bog to ask the First Commissioner of Works whether, having regard to the fact that one set of water closets off the Committee Room corridors is supplied from a cistern from which water is drawn for domestic purposes, he will state from what system and source the drinking water in the dining room and bar is obtained?
§ Sin J. T. HIBBERTI will answer this question, in the absence of the right hon. Gentleman. The drinking water in the dining room and bar is drawn direct from the main tanks of the building, which are filled from the main pipes connected with the artesian wells and waterworks of the Government at Orange Street, Trafalgar Square. Owing, however, to the deficiency of the supplies from Orange Street, the Government mains have frequently to be replenished from the mains of the Chelsea Waterworks Company to the extent of half the consumption.
§ MR. WEIRasked if the water thus obtained was placed in the same tank as that from the artesian wells?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTI cannot say.