ADMIRAL FIELDI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether the recommendations of the Commissioners, embodied in their recent report on the electrical communication with light stations, have been approved; whether the same will be carried out without unnecessary delay, as regards the Farmby Light-vessel, the Maplin Pile Lighthouse, the Smalls Rock Lighthouse, the Little Ross and Bidston Shore Lighthouses; and whether arrangements will be made to display the storm warning signals at the 25 lighthouses, as recommended, at the small cost of £1 each?
§ MR. BRYCEIn addition to the works recommended in the recent (Third) Report of the Royal Commission, there are still some works, recommended in their First Report, which have not yet been carried out. A sum of £11,000 has been placed at the disposal of the Board of Trade for the purpose of effecting electrical communication with light-vessels, &c., during the present financial year, and the Board are at present considering on which of the works recommended that amount, which is not sufficient for all—should be expended.
§ SIR G. BADEN-POWELLMay I ask whether the sum is on the Estimates for the current, or for the past year?