§ MR. H. BROADHURST (Leicester)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether a large portion of the dressed granite inported from Norway for building the Keyham Dock is so badly worked as to require re-dressing before it can be used; and whether about 20,000 feet of the Norwegian granite so imported has been altogether condemned by reason of its inferior quality?
§ THE CIVIL LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,) Worcester, E.Some of the granite hits been re-dressed by direction of the superintending civil engineer. The answer to the second Question is in the negative. The granite generally is of excellent quality, and the amount to be rejected for inferior quality or workmanship is not likely to be great.