MR. CLAREI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether it is usual for the Board, after a local inquiry between two or more local authorities, to give notice to each opposing authority of the granting and issue for confirmation by Parliament of the consequent Provisional Order, if any; and, if so, for what reason, after the inquiry held in Manchester on the 17th of February, 1899, as to giving power for acquiring land in Flixton for sewage disposal, no notice of the Board's intention to issue an Order was given to the Flixton Parish Council, who appeared on the inquiry as opponents of the scheme.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. CHAPLIN, Lincolnshire, Sleaford)When a Provisional Order of the kind referred to is issued, copies of it are forthwith served on the owners, lessees, and occupiers of the lands proposed to be purchased under it, and this was done in the case mentioned in the question. But beyond this, it is not usual to give notice of the issue 509 of the Order to opponents of the application for it.