DR. RUTHERFORD (Middlesex, Brentford)To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to one or two outbreaks of fire occurring recently upon the District Railway; and whether he will ask the directors to post up notices in the carriages, &c., telling the passengers what to do in case of fire.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) My attention has been called to several cases of fusing on this railway, which, however, can hardly be described as "outbreaks of fire." A notice of the kind suggested would, in the opinion of my advisers, be more likely to create alarm than to add to the security of passengers.