§ MR. CATHCART WASON (Orkney and Shetland)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government. Board if he can state how many applications from local authorities to limit the speed of motor cars within certain limits and at certain places under the Motor Car Act, 1903, Clause 9, he has received since taking office, and bow many he has agreed to and how many he has refused.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSTwo such applications have been received. With regard to one of them a local inquiry is about to be held, and with regard to the other I am awaiting some further particulars for which I have asked. I may add that there were three cases of the kind referred to in which the application had been received before the change of Government took place, but which were not ready for decision at that time. In each of these cases I have decided to issue a restricting order with respect to the more important of the roads to which the application relates.