§ MR. CONYBEAREI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he has received any representations from the inhabitants of the Scilly Isles as to their mode of treatment under the Local Government Bill; and what arrangements he proposes to meet their special case?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. H. H. FOWLER,) Wolverhampton, E.I have received several communications on the subject, including one from the County Council, stating that it is desirable that the precedent of the Local Government Act, 1888, should be followed, and that power should be reserved to the Local Government Board, as under Section 49 of that Act, to issue an Order suitable to the local circumstances on the application of the County Council of the island. The clause which will be proposed will be placed on the Paper immediately.
§ MR. CONYBEAREHas the right hon. Gentleman received any communication from some of the inhabitants of the Island to the effect that they desire some arrangement in the nature of a Parish Council for each island?
§ MR. ASQUITHI have received a considerable number of communications, some of them of the nature referred to.