§ SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can state how far the island of Alderney is under the government of parish meeting and how far under that of the States of Guernsey; whether the Lieutenant-Governor of the island of Alderney holds a separate appointment as such, or is the Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey and its dependencies; how far the Channel Islands are being treated in the correspondence concerning the views of the Board of Agriculture as a single Government; and whether there is any authority common to the Governments of the States of Guernsey and the States of Jersey except that of the Crown.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The island of Alderney has its separate assembly of the States, and is not under the Government of the States of Guernsey. The Lieutenant-Governor of Alderney is the Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey and the other islands thereto belonging. He does not hold a separate appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of Alderney. The Channel Islands have 327 not been treated as a single Government in the correspondence respecting the proposed establishment of an abattoir in Alderney, but the authorities of the various islands have been separately consulted, because the Board of Agriculture are of opinion that it would be their duty to prohibit the landing in Great Britain of animals from any of the Channel Islands, in the event of the admission to any one of those islands of anima's brought from any of the countries from which the importation of cattle into Great Britain is for the time being prohibited. There is no authority, save that of the Crown, common to the Governments of the States of Guernsey and the States of Jersey.