§ MR. WILLIAM MOOREI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if the Irish Local Government Board have approved of the acting Nationalist Registration Inspector for North Tyrone, named Torish, being appointed a rate collector for the urban council of Strabane in that division; and, it so, whether, seeing that it will be this man's duty as rate collector to put 617 political opponents on the register and his interest as registration agent to keep them off, he will state on what grounds the appointment has been sactioned.
MR, WYNDHAMIn consequence of the illness of the permanent rate collector, the district council on January 12th appointed Mr. Torish to complete the collection of the second moiety of the rate for the current year. The appointment is a temporary one and was sanctioned by the Local Government Board. It was represented that Mr. Torish had been a registration agent but that ho was not at present employed in that capacity nor would he be so employed during his term of office as collector.