§ MR. FELLI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he can now supply the information promised with regard to the wages and hours of work of the men engaged in the granite 90 quarries in Norway which supply the stone to the Admiralty works at Haul-bowline and Keyham dockyard.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEI am informed that in the granite quarries in Norway the usual hours of labour amount to fifty-seven per week, ten hours on five full workings days, and seven on Saturdays. The work appears to be generally undertaken by contract, and calculating on the basis of three hundred working days in the year, the wages usually earned are stated to be four kroner or five kroner (4s. 6d. or 5s. 7d.) per day.
§ MR. T. M. HEALY (Louth, N.)asked whether the right hon. Gentleman could give the name of the Norwegian firm selected by the Admiralty to send granite into Ireland.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEsaid it was not in his Department, but he was informed that there was no such firm.
§ MR. T. M. HEALYWhere did they get the granite from.
[No Answer was returned.]