§ COLONEL LOCKWOOD (Essex, Epping)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether he has received a communication from the Lee Conservancy Board to the effect that from 10 to 12 lbs. of fish have been found dead in the River Lee; and, if so, will he say what steps he proposes to take to prevent the poisoning of fish in that river by acid and other refuse that escapes from the cordite and gun cotton works at Waltham Abbey.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) A communication to that effect has been received from the Lee Conservancy Board. As the result of a previous communication from the same board as to the nature of the effluents from the Royal Gunpowder Factory the matter was, in December, 1903, referred to the Local Government Board who forwarded a report of their inspector on the subject. The works based upon the recommendations contained in that report will be completed in two or three
†See (4) Deletes, cxxxii, 610 and 823, cxxxiii., 304.1375 weeks, when all cause for complaint will be removed.