§ MR. BRYCE (Aberdeen, S.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether the attention of the Board of Trade has been called to the scheme of the Caledonian Railway Company and Great North of Scotland Railway Company for making a new station at Aberdeen, and to the omission in that scheme to make provision for a public access on each side of the station (which will be a long one), and to make adequate provision for the very large and increasing traffic in fish; whether the Board is aware that a strong and general feeling exists in Aberdeen that the plans for the new station are seriously defective in both the above respects; and whether the Board will take the matter into consideration, and will, if satisfied that the facts are as above stated, represent to the two railway companies the propriety of so amending their scheme as to make-due provision for securing the above objects, and generally for the convenience and safety of the public using the station?
THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (for the PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE)My right honourable Friend requests me to state that he has received a letter from the Caledonian Company which he will be happy to show to the right honourable Gentleman. The company are, he believes, conducting negotiations with regard to the improvement of the station, and are consulting the local authority with reference thereto. Until those negotiations are further advanced he is not able to say what their effect will be.