§ MR. LAMONTI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he will state the estimated cost of the lighted buoy to be placed by the Northern Lights Commissioners at Hamilton Spit, in the Island of Arran.
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. KEARLEY,) DevonportThe estimated cost of establishing the 90 proposed gas lights buoy off Hamilton Spit is £350.
§ MR. LAMONTMay I ask the hon. Gentleman whether, if this small expenditure had been incurred when I called the attention of the Board of Trade to the subject by means of a Question in March last year we should not have saved the £3,450 which it cost to repair H.M.S. "Commonwealth."