§ MR. JOHN CAMPBELL (Armagh, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can state the names of the ports to which he proposes to apply the provisions of the Aliens Bill.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. AKERS-DOUGLAS,) Kent, St. Augustine'sThe present distribution of the wholesale immigrant traffic indicates that this machinery should in the first instance be set up at London, Grimsby, Hull. Newhaven, Southampton, the Tyne, Leith, and Harwich. In addition to these it will probably be required at Liverpool, and may perhaps be required at some other Western port, but as to this latter point I am not yet in a position to make any statement.
§ MR. AKERS-DOUGLASIt is not proposed in the first instance to set up special machinery at Dover and Folkestone. The Board of Trade Returns do not show that it is necessary there.