COLONEL LOCKWOODI beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office if he will instruct the Superintendent of the Government Cordite Factory 33 at Waltham Abbey to limit strictly the explosion of the Settling Pond, so as to ensure a minimum of inconvenience and alarm to the inhabitants of the town?
§ *THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Mr. WOODALL,) HauleyThe intervals of time at which these explosions are effected are limited; but the action of the waste nitroglycerine is somewhat capricious, and an occasional loud explosion takes place. Measures are being taken to reduce this inconvenience as much as possible.