§ MR. MAURICE HEALY (Cork)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture why it is that in the Report of the Ordnance Survey Department issued in 1898 the map showing the progress of the survey in Ireland as regards the 25-inch map shows that in the case of the city of Cork the 25-inch map had been prepared and issued, whereas the map in the Report for 1899 shows that the map for Cork is neither ready nor issued; what the real facts are as regards the 25-inch map for the city of Cork; and why the system of colouring the map in the Report, showing the progress of the survey as regards the 25-inch map, has been altered in the year 1899.
§ *THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. LONG,) Liverpool, West DerbyBy reason of an error, the occurrence of which I much regret, the map issued with the Annual Report for 1897–8 to show the progress of the re-survey of Ireland on the 25-inch scale made it appear that the work in the city of Cork and its immediate neighbourhood had been completed. This, however, was not the case, the district in question being at the present time in process of revision. The error was corrected in the Annual Report for 1898–9. The colouring of the map referred to was altered in the latter in order to diminish the cost of printing.