SIR FREDERICK DIXON-HART-LAND (Middlesex, Uxbridge)I beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works whether he is aware that a large number of people, often between 10,000 and 20,000, assemble on Hampton Court Green on Sundays and Bank Holidays, and that absolutely no sanitary arrangements exist there; and whether he will make provision in his Estimates for providing such sanitary arrangements there as may be necessary?
§ THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (Mr. AKERS-DOUGLAS,) Kent, St. AugustinesI am prepared to admit that some provision of this kind has become necessary. It is, however, too late now to deal with the matter in regard to the Estimates for 1897–98. I will promise to consider it in connection with the local authorities, with a view to proposing to the Treasury the insertion of a sum on account of the work in the following year's Estimates.
§ SIR F. DIXON-HARTLANDIs the right hon. Gentleman prepared to put up some temporary shed for accommodation, because it is very necessary?
§ MR. AKERS-DOUGLASI should wish to see the local authorities before giving such a pledge, as I am of opinion that some share in any such building should be borne by the locality.