§ * MR. PARKER (Gravesend)I beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works whether the Votes for £633, Salaries and Wages, and £457, Police and Park Keepers, under Class 1, Vote 2, Civil Service Estimates, include any remuneration for men employed in the preservation of game for sporting purposes; and, if game is preserved, how many times is it shot.
§ MR. AKERS DOUGLASThe gamekeepers are not paid out of the Votes of Parliament, with the exception that the park superintendent has duties of supervision over the keepers as over the park generally, but he has nothing to do with the actual rearing of the game.
§ * MR. PARKERTo whom has application to be made for permission to drill in the park, and over what area is drilling permitted?
§ MR. AKERS DOUGLASAll applications are made to the Ranger direct, and considered and settled by him. H.R.H. gives permission to certain local corps to drill in this park, over an area, I should say, of some 400 or 500 acres. But as the matter is not dealt with by my Department, I cannot without notice give the exact acreage. I will, however, ascertain for my hon. friend.