§ MR. COHEN (Islington, E.)On behalf of the senior Member for the City of London, I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he has yet received any replies from the local authorities of Faversham and Whitstable in regard to the discharge from those places of crude sewage into the Thames Estuary; and, if so, what is the nature of those replies.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. GERALD BALFOUE, Leeds, Central)I have received replies from the local authorities referred to, who contend that in the circumstances of their districts they would not be justified in incurring the expenditure necessary for carrying out works for the treatment of the sewage. I shall be happy to forward copies of these communications to my right hon. friend if he desires to see them.