HC Deb 18 June 1906 vol 158 c1352
MR. STUART-WORTLEY (Sheffield, Hallam)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, whether the new coastguard station at Boscastle, in Cornwall, has been roofed with foreign slates; from what country were such slates imported; whether, in view of the fact that some of the most productive slate quarries in the United Kingdom exist within but a few miles of the site of this building, he will say whether any and what saving was effected by the use of foreign slates in this case.

THE CIVIL LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY (Mr. LAMBERT,) Devonshire, South Molton

The slates used were Welsh, not foreign.