§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAM (Cork Co., N.E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if his attention has been directed to the proceedings of the Cork County Council, on the 16th instant, when a letter was received from the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction informing them that the department was prepared to make loans to creameries for the erection of plant for the process of Pasteurisation, and when the county council unanimoulsy passed a resolution protesting against the allocation of public funds by the Department solely in the interests of creameries, while apparently making no provision for improving the dairy industry in other districts of the county by loans on like terms to dairy farmers to purchase hand separators and improve the condition of their own dairies; and if, before public funds are used solely in the way proposed, the Council of Agriculture will be called together to discuss this question and advise the Department as to the best means of improving the dairy industry generally throughout the county of Cork.
§ MR. WYNDHAMI stated on Monday last that the question of making loans for 1450 the purchase of separators was engaging the attention of the Department. The matter will be brought before the Council of Agriculture at its meeting next month.
§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAMWill a new policy be carried out without consulting the council?
§ MR. WYNDHAMWe can only act with the appliances placed at our disposal.