§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary to the Board of Trade if he will make inquiries regarding the alleged insanitary state of steamers plying on the north-west coast of Scotland; and whether he will require the owners of these steamers to put and maintain them in a proper sanitary condition?
§ MR. BURTI can only repeat the reply given by the late President of the Board of Trade to a similar question put to him by my hon. Friend on the 7th instant. No complaints have been made to the Board or to its local officers with regard to the sanitary arrangements on board the steamers referred to, but if any definite complaints are made they shall be carefully inquired into.
§ MR. BURTNo complaints have been received, and I suppose that Government Departments usually have quite enough to do without going in search of work.