§ MR. JOYCE (Limerick)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the repeated delays in the transit of Irish produce by English railway companies; whether he will inquire into the delay in forwarding one 56–lb. box of unsalted creamery butter sent as a sample to Morford Stores, Beaconsfield, a station only a few miles from Slough, consigned at Limerick on April 20th and not delivered until April 25th, also another case in which it took eleven days from Limerick to St. Albans, via Holyhead, of a box fully labelled and the address written on the box besides.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEComplaint has from time to time been made to the Board of Trade of delays to consignments of butter from Limerick to places in England, and the Board have obtained explanations in such cases from the railway companies concerned. No complaint has been previously received with respect to the two particular consignments to which the hon. Member now refers, but the Board of Trade have drawn the attention of the Great Southern and Western Railway Company to the matter, and I will cause the hon. Member to be informed of the result.