§ MR. JAMES O'KELLY (Roscommon, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that the Local Government Board for Ireland have given notice that one of their inspectors will hold an inquiry, on 2nd July, 1907, on a petition forwarded by certain ratepayers in Boyle to constitute that township an urban sanitary authority; if he is aware that the notice was only received on 19th June, and that there is no meeting, either of the Ros- 1406 common County Council or the Boyle District Council, to be held between the date of notice being received and that on which the inquiry is to be held; if, seeing that both these bodies are interested in the matter to be inquired into, he will see that the inquiry be adjourned to a date that will give these bodies an opportunity of considering the course they should adopt in the interests of the ratepayers they represent; and if he will take steps to secure that the Local Government Board shall consult these bodies as to a convenient date for the inquiry.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Local Government Board gave the usual statutory notice of this inquiry. The Board have since received from the county and rural districts councils a request that the inquiry may be postponed, and in reply have informed these bodies that the inspector will attend and formally open the inquiry on the date fixed, and will then adjourn it to any date which may be arranged to suit the convenience of the parties concerned.