HC Deb 12 June 1894 vol 25 cc922-3
MR. D. SULLIVAN (Westmeath, S.)

In the absence of the hon. Member for North Louth, I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that, since the opening of the new railway station at Dundalk on the 1st of June, a serious dispute has arisen between the Great Northern Company and the local car driversl; is he aware that the Company has farmed out the exclusive right to supply the trains with a service of cars to one individual, and the car owners, some 30 or 40 in number, have come into collision with the railway officials by insisting on their right to enter the station premises as heretofore; that summonses have been issued against a number of the carmen for trespass, and the latter have addressed a Memorial to the Local Boards, asking their intervention; that at meetings of the Board of Guardians and of the Harbour Commissioners sympathy with the claims of the men was expressed; and have the Board of Trade any power to secure that the right which the car drivers have exercised since the line was first opened shall not be interfered with?

MR. BRYCE

No, Sir; the Board have no power to intervene in such a matter.