§ MR. JOYCE (Limerick)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to a complaint made by Major Hickman, of Fenloe, Newmarket-on-Fergus, county Clare, that on March 15th and 18th he sent a box of butter on both dates to the President, Royal Artillery Canteen, Woolwich, and the boxes were sent from Limerick by goods train via Waterford, and were not delivered until March 22nd; and whether, seeing the injury that is done to butter so detained, he will communicate with the Irish Department on the subject.
§ (Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The Department is inquiring into the subject of this complaint.