§ MR. BELLI beg to ask the President to the Board of Trade if he has yet received a Report from the officer who held the inquiry into the cause of the accidents to Porter Sellers and Fireman Day at Goole, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, on 28th December 1905; and can he state the ages of the two men and the hours they had been on duty at the time of their accidents.
§ MR. KEARLEYAn inquiry was held into the accident that occurred to Porter Sellers, and Fireman Day, who was injured at the same time, attended the inquiry. The Report has been received, and will be published in due course. Sellers, who stated that he was twenty years of age, had at the time of the accident been on duty for sixteen hours ten minutes, and the Board of Trade are in communication with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company on the subject of the hours worked by goods porters at Goole. I have no knowledge of Day's precise age, but in the notice rendered by the company of his accident, he is stated to be over eighteen years old, and to have been on duty eight hours thirty-five minutes at the time of the mishap.
§ MR. BELLWill the hon. Gentleman obtain a return from the company of the number of hours worked by these men in the three months ending December, 1905?
§ MR. KEARLEYI will make inquiry and see if the information can be obtained.