§ MR. CHARLES CRAIG (Antrim, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state the circumstances which led to the rejection of the applications for labourers' cottages presented by John Weir, William Casson, John Dewart, and Thomas Young to the Ballymena Rural District Council.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) A local inquiry was held in this matter, and the applications were rejected on the ground that there was no necessity for the cottages. The inspector found that there was an ample number of vacant suitable cottages, with gardens attached, to be had in the village of Ahoghill.