CAPTAIN CRAIGI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether the whistling buoy the Irish Lights Commissioners have decided to place at Strangford Bar, County Down, is yet in position; and, if not, can he promise that it will be moored before the autumn, when rough weather is generally experienced in that locality.
§ MR. CHURCHILLThe Board of Trade have not yet given their statutory sanction to the expenditure for this work, and I am in communication with the Advisory Committee on New Lighthouse Works in regard to it. I am afraid, however, it will not be possible for such a buoy to be placed in position before the autumn.
CAPTAIN CRAIGThis has been going on a long time. Surely it does not take two years to supply a whistling buoy?
§ MR. CHURCHILLwas understood to say it would be provided as soon as possible.