§ MR. FLYNNI beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works whether his attention has been called to the very defective arrangements for ventilating the Committee Room in which the British South African Committee now meet; and whether it is possible to arrange for an improvement on this condition of things?
§ THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (Mr. AKERS-DOUGLAS,) Kent, St. Augustine'sThe ventilating arrangements of the room in question are not all that could be desired when so large a number of persons as occupied the room on Tuesday last are present. I am doing my best to improve the ventilation, and to this end I have given directions that an electric fan shall be erected to increase the circulation of air in the room.