§ MR. M'KENNAI beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works whether any steps have been taken to carry out the recommendations of the official experts, that only pottery in which the glaze is leadless should be used by the Office of Works.
§ MR. AKERS DOUGLASI issued as long ago as August last a regulation that all articles for domestic use supplied under contract for the Public Departments, the Houses of Parliament, and such of the Royal Palaces as are under my charge, shall be made with leadless glaze. I may mention that my department had been taking experimental steps in this direction before the report of the Committee referred to; and considerable advance has been made in the extension of the regulation to the supply of earthenware, stoneware, and glazed bricks used for sanitary or architectural purposes, which have to be obtained as required by the surveyors of my Department.
§ MR. M'KENNAAre other Departments following in the same steps?
§ MR. AKERS DOUGLASI believe so, but I can only answer for my own.