§ MR. J. P. FARRELLI beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office, can he state the reasons which induced the War Office to take the contract of straw for the Cavan Militia Barrack from a local contractor and give it to a Belfast contractor at a higher figure than the local contractor had tendered at?
THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE WAR OFFICE (Mr. POWELL-WILLIAMS,) Birmingham, S.These contracts are arranged locally. The contractor at Cavan was struck off the list of contractors for twelve months by the General Officer Commanding, on account 1634 of his refusal to complete a tender which he had sent in for the supply of straw to the troops.