MR. DUNDAS WHITEI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board, with reference to the estate of about 890 acres of foreshore at Shoeburyness, recently purchased by the War Office for £5,500, what was taken as the annual value of that estate for rating purposes at the time of the purchase; or, if that estate formed part of a larger subject, by how much the annual value for rating of that larger subject has been reduced in consequence of the severance of that part.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSI am informed that up to the present time the foreshore in 1239 question has not been assessed for rating purposes. I understand, however, that the valuer of the Guardians of the Rochford Union, in which it is situate, is in communication with the Treasury valuer as to the assessment of this and other parts of the foreshore belonging to the War Department.