§ MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture whether payments of wages are recorded as having been made during the months of January, February and March 1907, at Forkhill, in Ireland, in the Ordnance Survey to workmen named Larkin and Stewart; when and where were these men first employed, and when and where were they discharged; and can he give the name of the officer who saw these men during any of the 1056 days they were supposed to have been employed in the Ordnance Survey.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The reply to the first part of the Question is in the affirmative. The persons to whom my hon. friend refers are recorded as having been employed at Forkhill for temporary duty as tape boys, Stewart on 10th December 1906, Larkin on 1st January, 1907, and both as having been paid up to 22nd March, 1907, and discharged at that place. There is no record that they were seen by any officer during the time specified.