§ CAPTAIN CRAIG (Down, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Kilkeel Rural District Council gave the presscribed notice to the owner of their intention to assign to the occupier the superfluous lands acquired by them for the purpose of the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, on which the United Irish League Hall is now being built; and, if not, whether he proposes to take any action in the matter.
§ (Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Local Government Board have ascertained from the clerk of the Kilkeel Rural District Council that the council did not give notice to the owner of their intention to reconvey to the occupier the 1150 superfluous land referred to in the Question. The reconveyance of such land to the person from whom it was acquired is a matter which is not subject to the control of the Local Government Board.