HC Deb 17 June 1901 vol 95 cc547-8
MR. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to a resolution passed at the meeting of the Irish Trades Congress at Sligo protesting against the contract for beer and porter for the troops in Ireland being withdrawn from Irish firms; whether any complaint has ever been made as to the quality or purity of the beer or porter supplied by the Irish * See page 412. brewers; and whether, seeing that an influential authority has stated that all articles for barrack necessaries should be obtained in the districts where the troops are stationed, he will see that the old system be reverted to.

LORD STANLEY

A copy of this resolution was sent to the War Office. Nothing is known there of any such complaint, nor would be, as this is purely a matter for the local military authorities to deal with. There has been no change of system, as the local military authorities have power to place orders for malt liquor with the firms they consider most desirable.